The Circle

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When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world – even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

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SKU: 9780241146507 Category: Publisher/imprint : Penguin Books
Page count : 491
Published on 24th April, 2014

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet

‘Prepare to be addicted’ Daily Mail

‘A gripping and highly unsettling read’ Sunday Times

‘The Circle is ‘Brave New World’ for our brave new world… Fast, witty and troubling’ Washington Post

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users’ personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can’t believe her great fortune to work for them – even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public …

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‘An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century’ Vanity Fair

‘Immensely readable and very timely’ Metro

‘Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication’ Guardian

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Weight 0.409 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.8 cm
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