A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Eggers's book is a moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious memoir. As a college senior, in the space of five weeks, he loses both his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year- old brother, Toph. Suddenly expelled from the cocoon of suburban life, the brothers wander the globe, propelled by a mission seldom associated with Generation X, and with a paradoxical sense of absolute freedom. Instead of getting depressed, they get even.
About this Author
Dave Eggers lives in San Francisco, California.
Reviews
"For 40 years readers have been waiting around on J. D. Salinger to send down a new manuscript from high atop his reclusive Vermont mountain. Well, the vigil is over and we can forget about hearing from Salinger. He's been replaced by a stunning new writer. His name is Dave Eggers." --Tampa Tribune
"Like any good trip, it's not the destination, but what's around the bend that counts. [And Eggers] takes us on a trip where he throws his hat out the window, rather than into the ring--to a place between autobiography and fiction, a place just off a bumpy road where truth is perhaps most comfortable. Exhilarating! Stunning! Heartbreaking! A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius amazes constantly." --The Globe and Mail
"Eggers unfailingly captures the reader with gorgeous conviction." --Lynn Crosbie, The Toronto Star
"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, The New York Times
"Scathingly perceptive and hysterically funny.... Eggers reveals a true, and truly broken, heart." --People
"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 laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger--. A comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries." --Washington Post
"A brave work, and not a little heartbreaking." --National Post
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