A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - by Dave Eggers (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The literary bestseller that redefines both family and narrative for the 21st century, this moving memoir is the story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>National Bestseller </b><br><b>Pulitzer Prize Finalist</b> <p/>A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. <i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</i> is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. <p/> <i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</i> is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book that noisily announces the debut of a talented--yes, staggeringly talented new writer." --Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i><br> <i> </i><br> " Exhilarating.... Profoundly moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious.... <b>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</b> is finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> "Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger.... He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear.... His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries." --<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/> "[F]unny, wildly intelligent.... What's consistent throughout is the full-throttle voice: the sensibility of the man who grieves his parents, who safeguards his brother, who knows that his own presence here can walk the line between 'self-conscious' and 'self-devouring." --<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/> "Eggers crafts something universal here, something raw and real and wonderful that transcends any zeitgeist and manages to deal trenchantly with 'big issues' that often prove too daunting for younger writers: mortality, youth the artifice of writing, the Zen of Frisbee. This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Dave Eggers</b> grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (<i>McSweeney's Quarterly Concern</i>), and a monthly magazine, <i>The Believer</i>. McSweeney's publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco's Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. Eggers's work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France's <i>Prix Médicis, </i>Germany's Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. His novels include <i>The Circle, A Hologram for the King</i>, and <i>Heroes of the Frontier</i>. <p/><br></p>
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