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and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions. Eggers’s strengths as a writer are real: his funny pitch-perfect dialog the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will’s thoughts. “There are some wonderful set-pieces here, and memorable phrases tossed on the ground like unwanted pennies from the guy who runs the mint.” - The Washington Post Book World “The bottom line that matters is this: Eggers has written a terrific novel, an entertaining and imaginative tale.” - The Boston Globe achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry.” - Newsweek “Eggers ’s writing really takes off - his forte is the messy, funny tirade, stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations.” - Newsday "An entertaining and profoundly original tale." - San Francisco Chronicle

This is that cool, carboard like cover, one of the first editions. "Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist." - Salon You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers. "There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chinatown bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers's own." - Entertainment Weekly Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." - LA Weekly " You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.

Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” - The New York Times Book Review Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace. DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Circle, The Eyes and the Impossible, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain.