Eggers's first novel traces the adventures of two friends as they travel across the globe, struggling with dangerous cars, the international date line, and the difficulty of distributing $32,000 in cash. Part romp, part allegory, all-American.
"There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chi-town bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers's own."
-Entertainment Weekly
"An entertaining and profoundly original tale."
-The San Francisco Chronicle
"Entirely honorable and ultimately persuasive... Eggers's frisbee sentences sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace."
-The New York Times Book Review
"Eggers's strengths as a writer are real: his funny, pitch-perfect dialogue; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will's thoughts, and the stream water clarity of his descriptions."
-Time
"Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist."
-Salon
