内容简介
ANationalBookAwardFinalistOneoftheNewYorkTimesBookReview's10BestBooksoftheYearOneoftheBestBooksoftheYearfromTheBostonGlobeandSanFranciscoChronicleInarisingSaudiArabiancity，farfromweary，recession-scarredAmerica，astrugglingbusinessmannamedAlanClaypursuesalast-ditchattempttostaveoffforeclosure，payhisdaughter'scollegetuition，andfinallydosomethinggreat.InAHologramfortheKing，DaveEggerstakesusaroundtheworldtoshowhowonemanfightstoholdhimselfandhissplinteringfamilytogether.
作者简介
DaveEggersistheauthorofsixpreviousbooks,includingZeitoun,winneroftheAmericanBookAwardandtheDaytonLiteraryPeacePrize.WhatIstheWhatwasafinalistforthe2006NationalBookCriticsCircleAwardandwonFrance’sPrixMedici.Thatbook,aboutValentinoAchakDeng,asurvivorofthecivilwarinSudan,gavebirthtotheValentinoAchakDengFoundation,whichoperatesasecondaryschoolinSouthSudanrunbyMr.Deng.EggersisthefounderandeditorofMcSweeney’s,anindependentpublishinghousebasedinSanFranciscothatproducesaquarterlyjournal,amonthlymagazine,TheBeliever,andanoralhistoryseries,VoiceofWitness.In2002,withNíniveCalegariheco-founded826Valencia,anonprofitwritingandtutoringcenterforyouthintheMissionDistrictofSanFrancisco.Localcommunitieshavesinceopenedsister826centersinChicago,LosAngeles,NewYork,AnnArbor,Seattle,BostonandWashington,DC,andsimilarcentersnowexistinLondon(theMinistryofStories),Dublin(FightingWords)andinCopenhagen,Stockholm,Melbourne,andmanyothercities.AnativeofChicago,EggersnowlivesinNorthernCaliforniawithhiswifeandtwochildren.,,
