"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 moving memoir of a
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius: a Memoir Based on a True Story
β Scribed by Dave Eggers
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 344 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1476737541
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β¦ Synopsis
"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 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. Here 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.
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