Cricket and Olympia Chase Beauty Across Time
Dave Eggers follows art, friendship and longing across time, which gives the novel a wistful pull. Cricket and Olympia’s changing bond should interest readers who like creativity, ambition and the compromises of adulthood, with tenderness running quietly underneath.
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Cricket and Olympia Chase Beauty Across Time
Dave Eggers follows art, friendship and longing across time, which gives the novel a wistful pull. Cricket and Olympia’s changing bond should interest readers who like creativity, ambition and the compromises of adulthood, with tenderness running quietly underneath.
- Book Synopsis
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Cricket is just a shy kid who likes drawing when he first meets Olympia. She’s older, more confident; she bullies him into some light vandalism and instantly he’s in love. When they’re together, they talk about their futures, how they’re going to travel the world, the beauty and rapture of art.
Then those futures start to arrive in unexpected ways, the years and decades pile up between them, the art world seduces and disappoints and frustrates them. And they have to figure out, again and again, what it is to be an artist, and who and what to love.
This is a wild and beautiful novel about two friends who believe they can change the world, if only they can start their own movement, dodge charlatans, remain open-eyed and open-hearted, avoid going mad, avoid dying young of rare cancers, stay true to their ideals and never tire of beauty. Not easy, but not impossible, either.
Ideal for readers who:
- Enjoy watching how time and the art world alter lifelong ambition, intimacy and self-image.
- Are captivated by complex friendships that shift under the pressure of creative success.
- Want to explore the realities of a creative life through longing, compromise and unspoken regret.
- Seek reflective, beautifully written novels balancing wit with a wistful emotional pull.
- About The Author
- Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them The Every, The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the American Book Award and the Newbery Medal, for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature with The Eyes and the Impossible. daveeggers.net
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781837267378
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Canongate, (02 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 432
- Weight
- 548 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 32 mm
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