A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and...
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National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 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.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. The Vintage edition includes a new appendix by the author.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780375725784
Publish date: 13-02-2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Utterly disappointing. It starts off entertaining and so aware of itself, in an almost Arrested Development kind of way, and then it's just a steady downhill incline through to the end of the book. It's like Eggers wanted to write a book that was proclaiming his own exceptionalism, before he was a...
A bit different than my normal reads but I enjoyed it.
didn't actually finish this book. the title was the only interesting thing about it. it also swore too much.
Probably a 3.5 star at the time I read it but Dave Eggers is just so annoying.
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