The Wild Things
By Dave Eggers
2009
First Published
3.45
Average Rating
277
Number of Pages
The Wild Things—based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze—is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control.
Avg Rating
3.45
Number of Ratings
9,027
5 STARS
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3 STARS
37%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Dave Eggers
Author · 52 books
Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible. He lives in Northern California with his family.
