
The Circle
By Dave Eggers
Published in 2013 by Knopf Canada
Finished reading: January 27th, 2015
Rating: 3 / 5
Description:
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ 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. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
- Pages: 491
- ISBN: 0345808584
- ISBN-13: 9780345808585
- Tags: fiction hardcover american technology
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