{"id":412,"date":"2014-10-03T00:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T00:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/?p=412"},"modified":"2014-12-08T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T23:01:10","slug":"the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/the-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
By Dave Eggers<\/a><\/br>\r\n[myrating]\r\n<\/div>
\nThe Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.
\nWhen Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world\u2019s most powerful internet company, she feels she\u2019s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users\u2019 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 company\u2019s 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 can\u2019t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in America\u2014even 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\u2019s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.<\/p>\n
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