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Title	:	Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Author	:	Dave Eggers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 212 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2014 by Knopf (first published June 1st 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literature. Literary Fiction. Audiobook. Adult Fiction

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From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how.

In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at his chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn't answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions.

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Original Title:	Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
ISBN:	1101874198 (ISBN13: 9781101874196)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016)

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I guess the last three books by Dave Eggers could be considered a thematic trilogy; all of them seem to be trying to put their thumb on the current status of America. They are observant yet barbed works of fiction that in no way regard the United States as the "Land of the Free".What sets this third book apart from "Hologram for the King" and "The Circle" is its form. Written entirely in dialogue, one could look at this as a script for a play or film, except there are no descriptions of setting

It was written with urgency; unfortunately, it's a kind of condescending urgency you would find in a college application essay where the kid thinks he should get into an Ivy League school but really probably belongs at a Tier 2 institution. Smug and self-satisfied, preachy

1.5 starsEasily the worst of Eggers' offerings I've read so far, YFWAT?ATPDTLF? is another effort of his to champion a "cause", and rally for the rights of the disenfranchised. Unlike vastly superior efforts like What is the What and Zeitoun, this time Eggers tries humorless Palahniuk-y gimmickry coupled with limp Mamet-esque theatrics to deliver his message. As my political viewpoints are similarly aligned to his, Eggers is preaching to the choir, but thanks to an utter lack of subtlety and

This isn't fiction, it's op-ed wankery. After The Circle and this, I now have no interest in Eggers' next book. It makes me wonder: when's the last time anybody said to him, "Hey Dave? This isn't very good."

Ahahaha!! That was one of the worst things I've read in a while.You know, like it's all dialogue, which I guess is a technique he's partly biting from William Gaddis, who obviously did it wayyyy better! I was at least looking forward to a mess of speakers all at once but it's just one guy who pairs off folk and talks to them one-on-one, which makes it much easier to write than a novel written in standard form with even a single scene with many people in the same room, so it's far from daringly

At least it was slightly more interesting (and a lot shorter) than The Circle.

lotta reviewers here crapping about how it's all dialogue, or how parts of it stretch credulity, or about how it's a long whine about white-boy privilege... ya, sort of. but.the central issue of the book--which i take to be about how the US has abandoned the idea of doing anything Big (like going to space) and thus left generations of young, bright men with nothing heroic to do--well, it may not have the emotional punch of more desperate needs, but that doesn't make it meaningless. a writer can