The Circle
About This Book
Mae Holland lands a job at the Circle, the most powerful internet company on earth, and treats it as the break of a lifetime. The company has folded people's email, social media, banking and shopping into a single online identity, and its leaders promise that this will usher in an era of honesty and good manners. Its headquarters is a vast campus in California, and Mae is dazzled from her first day. The campus feels like a world of its own. There are open-plan offices, glass-walled dining halls and comfortable dorms for employees who would rather not go home. Evenings bring all-night parties, concerts by famous musicians on the lawn, clubs, sports and brunches. In the lobby sits an aquarium of rare fish that the CEO himself brought up from the Marianas Trench. Mae is delighted with her good fortune, even as her life outside the campus fades into the distance. An unsettling encounter with a coworker rattles her, and her job keeps pulling her further into public view, with more of her life exposed to everyone. Dave Eggers begins with a young woman's ambition and idealism and turns it into a tense, fast-moving satire of life online. Along the way he asks what becomes of memory, history, privacy and democracy when everything is watched and shared, and where the limits of human knowledge lie.
ISBN: 9780345807298
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