Dave Eggers Knihy

Sugestivní kniha mladého amerického autora, který se v ní originálním způsobem vyrovnává se smrtí svých rodičů. Autentické vyprávění zachycuje zážitky a hlavně pocity jedenadvacetiletého mladíka zaskočeného po smrti rodičů nutností pečovat spolu se sourozenci o osmiletého bratra. Hluboce lidská knížka líčí samozřejmou a neokázalou lásku, která mezi rodiči a dětmi panovala, drastickou matčinu chorobu a nakonec tíhu zodpovědnosti, jež na hrdinu a zároveň vypravěče s péčí o malého bratra dolehla a která načas utlumila i palčivou touhu po vlastním uplatnění. Lehce postmoderní vyprávění, psané bez jakékoliv sentimentality, s velkou citovou hloubkou a výrazným sebeironizujícím pohledem, je bezprostřední osobní zpovědí a zároveň i vynikající literární sondou do nitra mladého člověka.

Mae Hollandová získala práci v Circlu, nejsilnější internetové společnosti na světě, a nemůže uvěřit svému štěstí. Otevřely se jí tím nejen dveře do světa milých a pracovitých lidí, ale i sportovních klubů, skvělých restaurací a luxusu. Zaměstnanci Circlu používají nejmodernější technické vymoženosti, nosí nejkvalitnější oblečení, stojí u zrodu nových trendů a dokážou svými nápady a oddaností obrátit běh světových událostí k lepšímu. Navíc ve všech situacích drží pospolu a o každém svém kroku se informují na sociálních sítích. Mae tak víří v kruhu pracovních povinností, virtuálního přátelství, rostoucí sebedůvěry a stále větší zodpovědnosti a ani si nevšimne, jak se vzdaluje běžnému kontaktu s rodiči a přáteli… Opravdu chceme jeden o druhém vědět všechno, nebo je to na škodu? Máme ve světě sdílení informací ještě právo na tajemství a soukromí?

Alan pamatuje lepší časy, v obchodě i v životě. Celý život se živil prodejem jízdních kol, jenže v době, kdy všichni už dávno přesouvali výrobu do Asie a Afriky, on tvrdošíjně lpěl na poctivé práci amerických dělníků. Takže mu trochu ujel vlak a teď se ocitl v Saúdské Arábii, kde má v městě rostoucím uprostřed pouště králi Abdalláhovi představit revoluční holografickou technologii. Doufá, že mu ta zakázka změní život, že bude moct dál posílat dceru do školy, splatí dluhy a konečně se na něj usměje štěstí. Jenže král nikde a čekání na něj připomíná spíš absurdní drama, a tak se Alan utápí v myšlenkách a podomácku vyrobeném alkoholu, znovu a znovu rozepisuje dopisy dceři a rýpe do bulky, která se mu udělala na šíji.

Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.

McSweeney's Issue 4 is a box containing 14 booklets. The booklets feature fiction and nonfiction, from Denis Johnson, Haruki Murakami, Sheila Heti, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Rachel Cohen, Lawrence Weschler, Rick Moody, Lydia Davis, and many others. The first of many experiments in book and magazine packaging, McSweeney's Issue 4 marks a departure from the simpler paperback mold of the first three issues. For this issue, authors chose the art and design of their booklet. So, for example, Denis Johnson chose to use his son Matt's doodle for the cover of his three-act play "Hellhound On My Trail." George Saunders gave us a photo he took years ago, in Russia, for the cover of his "Four Institutional Monologues." And we took all of these booklets, and fit them in a box with a wood-footed bird adorned on the top. (For those asking Why?, there is also a booklet devoted to answering that question, written by editor Dave Eggers.) This rare issue, virtually out of print since it was first published, is now lovingly remade with a sturdier, more archive-worthy box and the same wondrous collection of prose.

Johannes, the free dog, is tasked with observing his urban park for the three bison elders. As he navigates his duties, he encounters increasing human activity, a new building, and an influx of goats. These changes culminate in a surprising revelation that challenges his understanding of his surroundings and the dynamics within the park.

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification- found themselves imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. These narrators include: Paul Terry, who spent twenty-seven years wrongfully imprisoned, and emerged psychologically devastated and barely able to communicate. Beverly Monroe, an organic chemist who was coerced into falsely confessing to the murder of her lover. Free after seven years, she faces the daunting task of rebuilding her life from the ground up. Joseph Amrine, who was sentenced to death for murder. Seventeen years later, when DNA evidence exonerated him, Amrine emerged from prison with nothing but the fourteen dollars in his inmate account.

NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enthralling novel for all ages by award-winning author Dave Eggers, told from the perspective of one uniquely endearing dog— featuring beautiful color artwork with illustrations by Caldecott honoree Shawn Harris. “Johannes is a highly engaging narrator whose exuberance and good nature run like a bright thread through the novel’s pages.” —The New York Times Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance. But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world. A story about friendship, beauty, liberation, and running very, very fast, The Eyes & the Impossible will make readers of all ages see the world around them in a wholly new way.

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . . 'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . . sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration . . . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, GUARDIAN