The Double Bind of Creative Success Dave Eggers's latest novel, Contrapposto , is a rich exploration of the tensions between artistic integrity and worldly achievement.
It's also deeply personal – a reckoning with the author's own career trajectory, which has seen him move from enfant terrible to establishment figure. Eggers's early work was marked by its audacity and innovation.
His first novel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , captured the zeitgeist of the early 21st century with its self deprecating tone and willingness to blur fact and fiction.