In the end, what makes A Hologram for the King is the conviction with which Eggers plunges into the kind of regular working American we don’t see enough in contemporary fiction, and gives voice and heft to Alan’s struggles in an information economy in which he has no information and there’s not much of an economy. But the strength of all work comes from his sense of loss and pain, mixed with his decidedly American wish to try to bring his orphaned characters to a provisional shelter. Eggers’s inhabiting of the terms and tics of a distinctly American consciousness is as remarkable as, in earlier books, his channeling of Sudanese and Syrian sensibilities. Eggers’s command of this middle-management landscape is so sure - and his interest in the battle between humanity and technology so insistent - that his book might almost be a DeLillo novel written for the iPhone Generation, though delivered by DeLillo’s more openhearted and Midwestern nephew. that it’s easy to overlook just how strong and well wrought the writing is. This book was first published in 2012 by McSweeneys, an independent publishing company that was founded by Eggers himself. Scene after scene is so clear and precise. A Hologram for the King is a 2012 fiction novel by the acclaimed American novelist Dave Eggers. Hologram flashes past in an appropriately quick series of brief, displacing passages with plenty of space around them for us to feel the vacancy and nowhereness.
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