Bibliograph

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers

Type

Label

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Oclc number

44905027

Responsibility statement

by Dave Eggers

Summary

A 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 hearfelt story of the love that holds a family together

Table Of Contents

Incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors -- Through the small tall bathroom window, etc. -- Please look, can you see us, etc. -- Enemies list, etc. -- Oh I could be going out, sure -- Outside its blue-black-getting darker, etc. -- When we hear the news at first -- Fuck it. Stupid show, etc. -- We can't do anything about the excrement -- Robert Urich says no. We were so close -- Of course it's cold -- Black Sands Beach is

Target audience

juvenile

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