A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
By Dave Eggers
- Release Date: 2013-02-12
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
"Exhilarating…Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious...A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" (The New York Times Book Review).
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the unique, moving 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. In his distinctive style unlike any other memoir, Egger's story is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive, as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.
Reviews
Wow!
5By OG SnowflakeDave, if you read these reviews: many many people are out here ready to be the lattice. Readers: this is a great book. Never read another one like it.Honestly the best modern book I've read
5By Jeff DixonThis is probably as close as we've gotten to the great American novel since huckleberry FinnExcellent
5By Aliette H. CarolanStarts off a bit slow but once it picks up it's hard to put down.