You Shall Know Our VelocityAn “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “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 "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly |
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... walked from the western edge of the apartment , where I would lock and unlock the front door , and then east , to the back deck's glass sliding door , which I opened quickly , thrust my head through and shut again . Hand could hear the ...
... walked from the western edge of the apartment , where I would lock and unlock the front door , and then east , to the back deck's glass sliding door , which I opened quickly , thrust my head through and shut again . Hand could hear the ...
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... walked to a nouveau - outdoors store humid with nylon and velcro , energy bars and carabiners and a climbing wall no one used . Hand and I needed pants , pants to end all pants - warm and cool , breathing and trapping in , full of ...
... walked to a nouveau - outdoors store humid with nylon and velcro , energy bars and carabiners and a climbing wall no one used . Hand and I needed pants , pants to end all pants - warm and cool , breathing and trapping in , full of ...
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... walked in and through the shushing slowly closing automatic doors and I watched them glide , bright fabric swishing , to the Air Afrique desk , a few feet from GreenlandAir . I walked in after them and Hand fol- lowed . On the small ...
... walked in and through the shushing slowly closing automatic doors and I watched them glide , bright fabric swishing , to the Air Afrique desk , a few feet from GreenlandAir . I walked in after them and Hand fol- lowed . On the small ...
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... walked to the desk . How late ? we asked . It was now scheduled , the woman said with a straight face , for 9 P.M. Hand fell to his knees . He was hammy that way . I waited for him to get up , which he did with a clap as punctuation ...
... walked to the desk . How late ? we asked . It was now scheduled , the woman said with a straight face , for 9 P.M. Hand fell to his knees . He was hammy that way . I waited for him to get up , which he did with a clap as punctuation ...
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... walked into the lobby . Was that a joke about my face ? It was , I think . We were in line now , waiting to check in . The white man looked at our shoes , our backpacks , gauging their contents . " So , " he said , " you guys planning ...
... walked into the lobby . Was that a joke about my face ? It was , I think . We were in line now , waiting to check in . The white man looked at our shoes , our backpacks , gauging their contents . " So , " he said , " you guys planning ...
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