
achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry.” - Newsweek “Eggers ’s writing really takes off - his forte is the messy, funny tirade, stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations.” - Newsday "An entertaining and profoundly original tale." - San Francisco Chronicle "Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist." - Salon "There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chinatown bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers's own." - Entertainment Weekly

Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." - LA Weekly " You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer. Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” - The New York Times Book Review Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace.
