The Circle

Author Eggers, Dave
Year 2014
First published 2013
Publisher London: Penguin
Number of pages 491
Edition First UK Paperback
ISBN 9780241970379
Keywords informatics, literary or mainstream, USA or Canada, FMS Library Book

Abstract

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. (Amazon)