This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, Dave Eggers
This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, Dave Eggers
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This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

Author: Dave Eggers

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/20/2018


Synopsis

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Picture Books of 2015. The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's first bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened-how a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks to the vision and stick-to-itiveness of a few peculiar architects, one of the most memorable man-made objects ever created. Told with irresistible prose, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray is a joyful history lesson in picture-book form-a gorgeously crafted story that teaches us how beauty and inspiration tend to come from the most unexpected places. Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in, even if it's just a color.

About Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer:, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries, Wholphin; and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on August 30, 2021

Dave Eggers wrote a kids' book! Well, not exactly - he wrote an essay that they illustrated and shelved with the kids' books. 2.5 stars. A real "Why? Why not?" experience.......more

Goodreads review by Dave on November 28, 2015

I guess I have to categorize this as a kid's book. It looks like one with the simple cutout art and poster colors. And it's not told on a simple level. But it doesn't read like a kid book, much. Too much talk, too many words, and kind of meandering prose. The point of the books s that people worked......more