You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

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Book name:	You Shall Know Our Velocity (2024)
Category:	Adventure
Author:	Dave Eggers
Pages:	400 pages
Language:	English
Publication data:	Jan. 1, 2002, midnight

Two childhood friends embark on a week-long, round-the-world adventure, determined to give away a large sum of money they recently acquired. The journey is filled with absurd and often humorous encounters as they struggle to make sense of their friend's recent death and their own place in the world. The narrative explores themes of grief, friendship, and the human capacity for altruism and selflessness. The 6001st greatest book of all time

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Dave Eggers

7 books

Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonp… Read more