you shall know our velocity by dave eggers

“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

'Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist.' - Salon '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. I could be taken and eaten by these wet alleyways without protest.“Headlong, heartsick and footsore.Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace.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 I had been on a plane! A tiny percentage of all those who'd ever lived would ever be on an airplane- and had seen Africa rushing at me like something alive and furious.

The rock-running in Senegal was enough, the kids and their bonjours- that alone would prepare me for the end if I couldn't be thankful enough having been there I was sick and ungrateful, and I would not be ungrateful, not ever, I would always know the gifts given me, I would count them and keep them safe! I had had so much so I would be able to face the knife in the alley and accept it all, smiling serenely, thankful that I'd be taken while riding the very crest of everything. To be ready you need to be tired, and you need to have seen a great deal, or what you consider to have been a great deal- we all have such different capacities, are able to absorb and sustain vastly different quantities of visions and pain- and at that moment I started thinking that I had seen enough, that in general I'd had my fill and that in terms of visual stimulation the week thus far has shown me enough and that I was sated.

You shall know our velocity by dave eggers