A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together.

Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s, a quarterly journal and website (www.mcsweeneys.net), and his books include You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, What is the What, and the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and Ocean Navigator. He is the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a 2001 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Northern California.

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ISBN 13	9780330484541
ISBN 10	0330484540
Title	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Author	Dave Eggers
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Binding type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2000-07-21
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2000 (UK), Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2001 (UK)
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