The Circle
Author: Eggers, Dave
ISBN: 9780241146507
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 26 Mar 2014
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - a timely novel about our obsession with the internet, from one of our greatest storytellers
When Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...
ISBN: 9780241146507
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 26 Mar 2014
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - a timely novel about our obsession with the internet, from one of our greatest storytellers
When Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...
