The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment
Dave EggersTogether with his band of petty thieves & confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills his passengers, writing his dreams & notions on the cafeteria wipe-away board, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, & tossing overboard anyone who displeases him. Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looked without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon . . .
Absurd, hilarious, & all too recognizable, The Captain & the Glory is a wicked farce of contemporary America only Dave Eggers could dream up.
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, & The Lifters.
He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, & a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. 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 youth writing & tutoring centers around the United States.