How We Are Hungry
Stories by Dave Eggers
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How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical and soulful collection of stories from the acclaimed author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Ranging from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), and from the Egyptian desert to the asphalt of Interstate 5, these stories are Eggers at his finest. By turns devastating, clear-eyed and funn - incredibly funny - this collection is a marvel.
About this Author
DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Circle, The Eyes and the Impossible, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing and tutoring center which has inspired dozens of similar nonprofit organizations around the world, and the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publisher. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, and the American Book Award.
Reviews
"These tales reinvigorate that staid old form, the short story, with a jittery sense of adventure.... Eggers does things that should be impossible, and he does them gracefully."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Beautiful stories, anchored in the real world.... How We Are Hungry looks like a classic."
--The Oregonian
"A tour de force.... These pieces demonstrate the same startling geographic range and sly descriptive acuity that animated You Shall Know Our Velocity.... [Eggers's] prose is supple, transparent and surprising."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Electrically funny ... full of the raw stuff of lives. The pain and the anger. Emotions that get mixed up and change from one minute to the next. The wonder and the joy. It's all condensed and crafted, worked, that's what fiction is. But it feels raw, and it's exhilarating."
--The Globe and Mail
"There's plenty in this collection to remind us that, for all his noodling around, Eggers is phenomenally talented."
--Washington Post
"[The story 'Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly' is] a masterpiece ... the narration is magisterial, without a false note.... It may well be the last great twentieth-century short story."
--The Observer (UK)
"'After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned' is a small tour de force that ratifies [Eggers's] ability to write about anything with style and vigour and genuine emotion."
--The New York Times
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