Vintage Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>Soon to be a Major Motion Picture <i>The Circle</i>?is the exhilarating novel from Dave Eggers best-selling author of?<i>Heroes of the Frontier</i>.</b><br>?<br>When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle the worlds most powerful internet company she feels shes been given the opportunity of a lifetime. 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. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces the towering glass dining facilities the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work she is thrilled with the companys modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night there are famous musicians playing on the lawn there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae cant believe her luck her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world?even as life beyond the campus grows distant?? even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken?? even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman??s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense?? raising questions about memory?? history?? privacy?? democracy?? and the limits of human knowledge.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><strong>" Best Book of the Month?? October 2013:</strong> As a fiction writer?? indie publishing icon and education activist Dave Eggers neither suffers fools gladly nor treads lightly. With his signature mix of intelligence and highly literate snark?? he dives headlong into contemporary crises--Hurricane Katrina?? the Sudanese civil war--through the lens of a single character whose perspective we get