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The circle, run out of a sprawling california campus, links users personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. The circle is dave eggerss tenth work of fiction, and a fascinating item it is eggerss first major book was the muchacclaimed semifictional memoir a heartbreaking work of staggering genius 2000, which recounts the struggles of eggers to raise his younger brother after the death of their parents. Dave eggers ebooks epub and pdf format dave eggers ebooks. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Download the book dave eggers the circle for free in a convenient format epub, pdf, fb2, mobi. The circle ebook by dave eggers 9780241967553 rakuten kobo. When privacy is theft by margaret atwood the new york. When mae holland lands her dream job at the worlds most powerful internet company, she has no idea what awaits behind the doors of the circle. A hologram for the king, a finalist for the national book award. Eggers, throughout most of the novel, makes all his main characters into personifications of something else, and this is problematic because otherwise they are all onedimensional, even the main character. A young woman named mae holland arrives at the campus of a company called the circle, one of the most highly praised and innovative tech companies in the world. Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive the circle is dave eggerss timely novel. There were over ten thousand employees on this, the main campus, but the circle had o ces all over the globe, and was hiring hundreds of gifted young minds every week.