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Synopsis

Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can’t really say why they’re doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it’s something to do with Jack’s death – perhaps they’ll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every step and the natives prove far from grateful to their benefactors, Will and Hand find that the world is an infinitely bigger, more surreal and exhilarating place than they ever realised. In fact, it’s somewhere to get lost in …

Reviews

Critic Review:

‘Entertaining, pacy, a skilful weave of humour and pathos. Eggers’s fresh prose skims along the waves of his rollicking, picaresque first novel’ 
Sunday Telegraph

‘There’s genius here’ 
Time

‘Wildly exuberant, funny, edgy and as modern as tomorrow’ 
Daily Mail

‘Dave Eggers has become J. D. Salinger, Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac rolled into one’ 
The Times

‘The emotional honesty of Eggers’s writing is its great strength … he writes simply and well about pain and loss. An elegy for the end of youth and the end of life’ 
Times Literary Supplement

‘It’s energy, humanity and constant curiosity can enrich your life’ 
Independent

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