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The Every
- Author
- Dave Eggers
- Narrator
- Dion Graham
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 16 November 2021
- Run Time
- 16 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The Circle
When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every.
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?
Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.
Praise for the The Circle:
'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times
'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world . . . Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post
'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro
'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian
© Dave Eggers 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Eggers proposes an uncanny world, on the border between the impossible-to-imagine and the already-in-play. Every reader is implicated. We are all members of that passive army willing to trade freedom for convenience. As digital culture blossomed, people wondered if machines could be made to think like people. The more compelling question is the one Eggers poses in The Every: Are people content to become machines?
Sherry Turkle, author of The Empathy Diaries
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Hilarious and horrifying and idealistic. An unusual combination in a novel, or in anything else, really, but here the necessary result of a powerful writer taking on much of what matters most to our future
Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West
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Sparkles with provocative ideas
Publishers Weekly
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Once a decade a book like The Every advances the frontier of literary excellence: a book that reflects our culture. Predicts our future. Worm-holes into our subconscious. Delivers artful and complex characters, metaphor, ideas, narrative. Provides percussive movements of levity, gravity, grace, suspense, hilarity."
The Boston Globe
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[This is a] remarkable piece of satire, riven as it is with horribly plausible ideas and horribly good jokes. It's one thing to sound a warning about how we are on a slippery slope to a kind of consumerist fascism where we exchange liberty for convenience. What Eggers does so well is make The Every alluring as well as alarming . . . Eight years after The Circle was published, there is all too little that rings false about its predictions about social media. If the same is true of The Every, we are in even more trouble than we thought we were.
The Times
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An entertainingly horrifying portrait of a civilisation meekly enslaving itself to the power of the app
Metro
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Eggers does us a service in underlining the sinister directions tech is taking... In its timing, The Every is right on the cryptocurrency
i
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The plot is prescient and spookily plausible, and Eggers is always entertainingly spot on in his targets
Mail on Sunday
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Gulpable fictive entertainment . . . Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision
Observer
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You read it and think: yes, this is set in the future but it is actually going on here and now. It is an urgent and necessary book. It's also fun. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar
The Scotsman
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Details
- Author
- Dave Eggers
- Narrator
- Dion Graham
- Duration
- 16 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 November 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241993750
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Science fiction: near future, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The CircleWhen the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every.Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.Praise for the The Circle:'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world . . . Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian© Dave Eggers 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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