You Shall Know Our Velocity

"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

"There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chinatown bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers's own." –Entertainment Weekly

"Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist." –Salon

"An entertaining and profoundly original tale." –San Francisco Chronicle

"Eggers 's writing really takes off – his forte is the messy, funny tirade, stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations." –Newsday

"Often rousing ... achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry." –Newsweek

"The bottom line that matters is this: Eggers has written a terrific novel, an entertaining and imaginative tale." –The Boston Globe

"There are some wonderful set-pieces here, and memorable phrases tossed on the ground like unwanted pennies from the guy who runs the mint." –The Washington Post Book World

"Powerful.... Eggers's strengths as a writer are real: his funny pitch-perfect dialog; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will's thoughts; ... and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions.... There is genius here.... Who is doing more, single-handedly and single-mindedly, for American writing?" –Time