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A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius

  • 3.88 ·
  • 26 Ratings
  • 60 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 32 Have read

First Vintage Books Edition. Originally published in hard cover in slightly different form in the United States by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pages
484

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Cover of: Душераздирающее творение ошеломляющего гения
Cover of: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Feb 23, 2001, Pan MacMillan, Brand: Picador
paperback in English
Cover of: A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius
February 2001, Vintage Books
Paperback
Cover of: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
2001, Vintage Books
in English
Cover of: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Feb 23, 2001, Pan MacMillan, Brand: Picador, Picador
paperback
Cover of: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
2000, Simon & Schuster
in English
Cover of: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
2000, Wheeler Pub.
in English

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Table of Contents

Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book / vii
Preface to This Edition / ix
Acknowledgements / xxi
Incomplete Guide to Symbols and Metaphors / xxxviii
Part I. / Through the Small Tall Bathroom Window, Etc / 1
Part II. / Please Look. Can You See Us, Etc / 47
Part III. / The Enemies List, Etc / 71
Part IV. / Oh, I Could Be Going Out Sure / 105
Part V. / Outside It's Blue-Black and Getting Darker, Etc / 123
Part VI. / When We Hear The News At First / 167
Part VII. / Fuck It. Stupid Show. Etc / 239
Part VIII. / We Can't Do Anything About The Excrement / 281
Part IX. / Robert Urich Says No. We Are So Close / 311
Part X. / Of Course It's Cold / 353
Part XI./ Black Sand Beach Is/ 407

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2000, 2001

Classifications

Library of Congress
CT275.E37 A3 2001, CT275.E37A3 2001

Contributors

Cover Art
Komar and Melamid

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xlv, 437
Number of pages
484

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25613278M
Internet Archive
heartbreakingwor0000egge
ISBN 13
9780375725784
LCCN
00043832
OCLC/WorldCat
44905027
Amazon ID (ASIN)

Work Description

From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.

The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times

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