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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 07/05/2015
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ISBN: 9780241971321
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 131mm
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Weight: 162g
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RRP: £8.99
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world.
In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn't answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions.
'With each tightly controlled book, Eggers's fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling . . . Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?' Independent
'An angry and astute investigation into the state of America . . . Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola' Mark Lawson, Guardian
'One of our fiercest and most compelling writers' Sunday Times
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 07/05/2015
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ISBN: 9780241971321
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 131mm
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Weight: 162g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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One of our fiercest and most compelling writers
Sunday Times
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Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation
Independent
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A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing is compelling and the characterization astute
Booklist
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Inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we're in. Eggers pulls no punches
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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A one-sitting read . . . insightful
USA Today
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One of the country's leading literary eminences
Washington Post
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Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society.
HERALD
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His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to new lengths...compelling
EVENING STANDARD
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But with each tightly controlled book, Eggers' fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling... Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?
INDEPENDENT
