- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd; First Edition edition (27 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241142288
- ISBN-13: 978-0241142288
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 651,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Will and Hand, two young Americans, decide to travel around the world handing over large amounts of money to those who need it. This trip will, they hope, be an answer to the overwhelming grief they feel after their friend's death. But, as they soon find out, nothing is quite so simple.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Eggers has to be one of my favourite authors! Ok so he's only written a couple of books but his style is fantastic. Will's (Eggers main character here) stream of consciousness dialogues with himself appear so honest and brave that it is almost as though you are inside his head. The realatiy and power of the language used and the blunt and almost desparate situations are so real that it is almost hard to believe that Eggers hasnt actually experienced this 'holiday' himself. A fantastic read that will have you pondering the make up of the universe and much more.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book isn't A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, it's more like Eggers' attempt to be a great novelist. And there's sufficient promise here to think that one day he might be.
It's certainly full of clever ideas. Starting the story on the front cover is good, but I read the book on the beach and the suntan oil had mostly smeared it by the time I finished.
Still the story was smart enought to keep me reading, different enough to impress me, but not quite as quirky as I had hoped. I guess I was hoping for just a little more.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really liked the idea, and thought the book started very well, but it deteriorated rather rapidly into the kind of writing I associate with someone trying to justify/use a spell of travelling. I reacted similarly to Tim Winton, *The Riders*. Only I found Eggers even more exasperating because he seems to have failed abysmally in an attempt to say something highminded (if hackneyed) about a developed country's responsibility towards
the Third World.
the Third World.
The spiel about Egger's book makes comparisons between his prose and that of Saul Bellow or James Joyce. I confess these comparisons seemed frankly ridiculous!
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