A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0676973655
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2001-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I think this book is kind of malleable. I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever -- the second I first 'finished' it, I wanted to dig back in and change everything around. So I'm looking forward to getting back into the text, and straightening and focusing and deleting. Most of all, I'm thrilled that Vintage will be letting me include all the cool chase scenes, previously censored." -- Dave Eggers 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 seven-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. PAPERBACK EDITION -- 15% MORE STAGGERING - Eggers has written 15,000 additional words for the Vintage Canada edition, including an entirely new appendix.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417632244
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435236691
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles his life after the deaths of his parents, when he was responsible for the care and upbringing of his eight-year-old brother, and offers a new appendix clarifying, amending, and expanding the original work.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371379
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is the What written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino’s travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)–the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369064
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We Are Hungry written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical and soulful collection of stories from the acclaimed author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Ranging from a doomed Irish setter’s tales of running and jumping (“After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”) to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship (“Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance”), and from the Egyptian desert to the asphalt of Interstate 5, these stories are Eggers at his finest. By turns devastating, clear-eyed and funn – incredibly funny – this collection is a marvel.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426084
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Shall Know Our Velocity written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 034580760X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hologram for the King written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052565531X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parade written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this "darkly funny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 1524764191
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lifters written by Dave Eggers and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover an underground world full of tunnels and mystery in this middle-grade adventure from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier and Her Right Foot. What if nothing was as it seemed? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels, mere inches below you as you sit in class or eat a banana? What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What would it feel like to know the fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders? Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out. When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway underground, he knows that she is extraordinary and brave, and that he will have no choice but to follow her, and help her save the town (and the known world). With luck on their side, and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure, they might just emerge as heroes. In The Lifters, critically acclaimed author Dave Eggers establishes himself as a storyteller who can entertain and inspire readers of any age.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476737541
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.