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Zeitoun
by Eggers, Dave
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Milford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Eggers has become something of a cult figure with his politically forthright subject matter and a hip publishing empire in San Francisco.
This account of a Syrian-American's efforts to help the victims of the Hurricane disaster in New Orleans and his subsequent arrest by racist officials, is a damning portrait of the many failures of the Bush regime, but ultimately holds out hope for the spirit of America.
With back half-sleeve in place of a conventional jacket.
Hardcover.
Synopsis
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including You Shall Know Our Velocity , winner of the Independent Book Award, and What Is the What , a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces books, an eponymous quarterly journal, a monthly magazine ( The Believer ), and Wholphin , a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California–Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2238
- Title
- Zeitoun
- Author
- Eggers, Dave
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2009
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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