3.3
You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity Is The Story Of Two Young Americans, Will And Hand, Who Decide To Travel Around The World In A Week And Give Away A Large Sum Of Money. Their Friend Jack Has Died In A Shocking And Meaningless Accident, And This Whirlwind And Expensive Trip Will, They Hope, Be An Answer To Their Overwhelming Grief. But, As They Soon Find Out, Nothing Is Quite So Simple-They Find It Much Harder To Get Round The World Than They Expect And Almost As Hard To Get Rid Of The Money.
This Is A Very Personal Story As Well As A Sly Allegory For American Intervention Abroad, And Will And Hand Are The Most Unlikely Benefactors&
This Is A Very Personal Story As Well As A Sly Allegory For American Intervention Abroad, And Will And Hand Are The Most Unlikely Benefactors&
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERPenguin Group
LENGTH352
LANGUAGEEN
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Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/about-dave-eggers
3.3
You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity Is The Story Of Two Young Americans, Will And Hand, Who Decide To Travel Around The World In A Week And Give Away A Large Sum Of Money. Their Friend Jack Has Died In A Shocking And Meaningless Accident, And This Whirlwind And Expensive Trip Will, They Hope, Be An Answer To Their Overwhelming Grief. But, As They Soon Find Out, Nothing Is Quite So Simple-They Find It Much Harder To Get Round The World Than They Expect And Almost As Hard To Get Rid Of The Money.
This Is A Very Personal Story As Well As A Sly Allegory For American Intervention Abroad, And Will And Hand Are The Most Unlikely Benefactors&
This Is A Very Personal Story As Well As A Sly Allegory For American Intervention Abroad, And Will And Hand Are The Most Unlikely Benefactors&
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERPenguin Group
LENGTH352
LANGUAGEEN
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/about-dave-eggers
