Product Details Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: It Books; 1 edition (October 13, 2009) Language: English

Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are

DAVE EGGERS

Editors Of Mcsweeney's

Spike Jonze

Teen & Young Adult

It Books

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps they'll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every step and the natives prove far from grateful to their benefactors, Will and Hand find that the world is an infinitely bigger, more surreal and exhilarating place than they ever realised. In fact, it's somewhere to get lost in!

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

The plot follows Will and Hand, two childhood friends who set out on a week-long, around-the-world odyssey, ostensibly to give away a large sum of money. The plot is both a log of the journey, but more so a look into the mind of the narrator, Will.

You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Vintage Books/Random House

Dave Eggers has been partly responsible for a rejuvenation of short fiction in the USA, and these short stories are as original and witty as any of his longer works.\nContents 
"You Know How to Spell Elijah" 
"This Certain Song" 
"What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes" 
"The Weird Wife" 
"This Flight Attendant (Gary, Is It?) Is On Fire!" 
"True Story -- 1986 --Midwest -- USA -- Tuesday" 
"It is Finally Time to Tell the Story" 
"A Circle Like Some Circles" 
"On Making Someone a Good Man By Calling Him a Good Man" 
"The Definition of Reg" 
"How Long It Took" 
"She Needed More Nuance" 
"The Heat and Eduardo, Part I" 
"Of Gretchen and de Gaulle" 
"The Heat and Eduardo, Part II" 
"Sleep to Dreamier Sleep Be Wed" 
"On Seeing Bob Balaban in Person Twice in One Week" 
"When He Started Saying 'I Appreciate It' After 'Thank You'" 
"You'll Have to Save That For Another Time" 
"Woman, Foghorn" 
"How Do Koreans Feel About the Germans?" 
"Georgia is Lost" 
"They Decide To Have No More Death" 
"Roderick Hopes"

Short Short Stories

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Loosely based on Maurice Sendak s beloved children s book Where the Wild Things Are, Eggers novel follows the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can t control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, and his sister is becoming a teenager. At the same time, he finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: he wears a wolf suit and he bites his mom. During a fight at home, Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them.

The Wild Things

Literary

Penguin Books UK

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy &amp; Abdulrahman Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind &amp; water. Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs &amp; rescuing survivors. But nothing could prepare him for the nightmare that followed.

Zeitoun. Dave Eggers

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Hamish Hamilton Non Fiction

How We Are Hungry

Penguin??Books

The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 - the second instalment of Dave Eggers's crash course in what McSweeney's is all about - brings together more stories from the first ten issues of the magazine. Jonathan Ames, Judy Budnitz, Glen David Gold, Jonathan Lethem and A.M. Homes are amongst the writers spreading their wings in this fine collection and showing once more why McSweeney's is now a byword for brilliance, innovation and the unexpected.

Best of McSweeney's Volume 2

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation — and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.

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Arts & Literature

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Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are

You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Short Short Stories

The Wild Things

Zeitoun. Dave Eggers

You Shall Know Our Velocity

How We Are Hungry

Best of McSweeney's Volume 2

What Is the What