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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.
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By S. Blough
We used it for a book discussion, my sons and I, we all read it from a different perspective, siblings, students, caretaker, young men starting their careers. We all enjoyed it. Funny, sad, thought provoking.
By Safire Rain (New York, NY)
I started the book expecting a lot. Instead it reads like a very unedited diary of a boring, self-indulgent person. I don't see the hype, this book should have gone through a ton of editing and should have lost the "notes for a novel," stilted diary prose. I couldn't get past the first fifty pages even though I tried to force myself to keep reading in the hopes it would get better. I skipped around to later parts but the story could not capture my attention.
By Thade Correa (Bloomington, IN USA)
Dave Eggers has become the champion of hip writers today, and not without reason: he is a remarkable stylist. Sadly, that is all he is. His ironic, self-deprecating humor is completely transparent for what it really is: self-obsession. Many have called A Heartbreaking Work emotionally honest, but it doesn't strike me that way at all. I find Eggers brutally dishonest--for all his fear of bathos, he is extremely sentimental. Wallace Stevens called sentimentality a failure of emotion, and that is exactly what characterizes the whole of A Heartbreaking Work. Perhaps the book would be more emotionally honest if the author weren't so rampantly self-obsessed and prone to incessant navel-gazing and posturing. But that is the only hip writer is good at: posturing. This book is utterly, irritatingly pretentious.
By Virginia Pease
Dave eggers wites beautifully about this hard coming of age lessons. This author has a great sense of humor, but also gives light to the seriousness of family and responsibility.
By Joanna DeVoe (Los Angeles)
I will always love this book, because it gave me Dave Eggers. I was going through my own heartbreak when I first picked it up, so maybe that has something to do with the immediate emotional attachment I felt to his story, but I suspect his undeniable talent had something to do with it as well. He made me laugh. He made me cry. He made me want to write a novel. I could have done without the gimmicky bookends, but they by no means took away from my enjoyment of this heartbreaking work of staggering genius, and, now that I see what Egger's has gone on to do with his rock star status, I can appreciate those quirky touches, which remain in tact to this day & in full evidence in the way he presents McSweeneys & The Believer, as well as his passion for kids & making words fun.
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