You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Eggers, Dave
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0970335555
- ISBN 13
- 9780970335555
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About This Item
Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.: McSweeney's Books, 2002. In Fine condition. Gray boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gray. Red endpapers. 371pps. No dustjacket, as issued. This is an excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. Absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. This is one of the scarce Stated First Edition copies, sold only on the author's website and preceding the trade edition. SIGNED by Eggers on the rear pastedown (copyright page) -- without further inscription, but with a one-of-a-kind drawing of a bird with human ears. (This drawing refers to the legend of The Jumping People, a South American tribe of bird-worshippers who tried to emulate the birds' flight by jumping off the cliffs, hoping that in time they would learn how to fly. These Jumping People, according to the novel, left a message on the cliff above their village, carved in stone, for the conquistadors to find. The Spaniards later translated this message as 'YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY'-- which gives the novel its title.) A beautiful collector's copy. Laid in is a photo of the author doing the signing.
"...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. 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."
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Synopsis
You Shall Know Our Velocity is a 2002 novel by Dave Eggers. It was Eggers's debut novel, following the success of his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000). The plot follows Will and Hand, two childhood friends who set out on a week-long, around-the-world odyssey, ostensibly to give away a large sum of money.
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- Title
- You Shall Know Our Velocity
- Author
- Eggers, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0970335555
- ISBN 13
- 9780970335555
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Books
- Place of Publication
- Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- FICTION GENERAL AMERICAN LITERATURE COLUMBIA GUAVIARE RIVER CHICAGO MCSWEENEY'S EGGERS YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY STATED FIRST EDITIONS LIMITED SIGNED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Literature & Fiction, U.S.A;
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