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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. 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.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. The Vintage edition includes a new appendix by the author.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers

  • Publication Date: February 17, 2000
  • Genres: Nonfiction
  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN-10: 0684863472
  • ISBN-13: 9780684863474