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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

Pages

496

Published

2001-02-13

ISBN

0375725784

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"This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book." —San Francisco ChronicleNational Bestseller Pulitzer Prize FinalistA 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.

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