A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

By Dave Eggers

  • Release Date: 2013-02-12
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 143 Ratings

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!

    5
    By OG Snowflake
    Dave, 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

    5
    By Jeff Dixon
    This is probably as close as we've gotten to the great American novel since huckleberry Finn
  • Excellent

    5
    By Aliette H. Carolan
    Starts off a bit slow but once it picks up it's hard to put down.