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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

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Book name: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2024)
Category: Fiction
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Pages: 437 pages
ISBN13: 0375725784
ISBN: 0375725784
Language: English
Publication data: Feb. 13, 2001, 8 a.m.
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 for decades to come.

About the author

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

7 books

Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonp… Read more