The circle : a novel / Dave Eggers.
2013
PS3605.G48 C57 2013 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 15. Oct 2024
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Title
The circle : a novel / Dave Eggers.
Author
Eggers, Dave.
ISBN
9780385351393 hardcover
0385351399 hardcover
0385351399 hardcover
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2013]
Language
English
Description
491 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
PS3605.G48 C57 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.
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