6/7/2023 0 Comments Dave eggers you shall knowThere's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chi-town bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers' own. I was inside, very warm, walking from door to door.'' It was a clear and eyeblue day, that day, as was the first day of this story, a few years ago in January, on Chicago's North Side, in the opulent shadow of Wrigley and with the wind coming low and searching off the jagged half-frozen lake. ''Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River, in east-central Colombia, with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. Written and illustrated by Dave Eggers, designed (gracefully), copyedited (slightly sloppily), and published by the company he runs, the novel ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'' begins with the paragraph boldly engraved on its cover: (Entertainment Weekly) - Chez McSweeney, no jacket is required.
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