Contrapposto (Pre-Order June 9th 2026)

Contrapposto by Dave Eggers Pre-Order June 9th 2026

From Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible, comes a sweeping, witty, and deeply moving novel about art, ambition, friendship, and love across a lifetime.

Born on the American prairie with no clear future, Cricket Dib discovers in grade school that he can draw — a revelation that changes everything. Soon after, he meets Olympia Argyros, brilliant, bold, and intoxicatingly confident. Recognizing Cricket’s raw talent, Olympia draws him into his first act of rebellion, and into a lifelong bond that will define them both.

From art school to the international art world, from New York to Paris, Indiana to Cambodia, Cricket and Olympia’s relationship evolves across six decades — as collaborators, confidants, rivals, and lovers. Cricket sees Olympia as his destiny, while Olympia’s restless heart continues to search for something more. Together and apart, they chase beauty, build movements, battle illness, confront failure, and try to stay faithful to art in a world shaped by money, fame, and compromise.

Contrapposto is a luminous, funny, and profoundly human novel about what it means to be an artist — and what it means to love someone over a lifetime. With warmth, insight, and irreverent humor, Eggers explores creativity, mortality, the art market, and the fragile hope that friendship and art can still change the world.

A rich, globe-spanning novel of devotion and desire, Contrapposto is a celebration of beauty, endurance, and the impossible pursuit of meaning through art.