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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- 437 pages ยท about 7 hours
- First published 2000
- 24 editions
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1 About this book
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.
The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times.
- Bildungsromans
- Biography
- Authors, biography
- Medicine
- Coming of age
- Biography and autobiography
- Bereavement
- Death
2 About Dave Eggers
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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