A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A 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 hearfelt story of the love that holds a family...
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Vintage Books,
2001.
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / |c by Dave Eggers. |
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| 500 | |a Addendum bound upside down. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors -- Through the small tall bathroom window, etc. -- Please look, can you see us, etc. -- Enemies list, etc. -- Oh I could be going out, sure -- Outside its blue-black-getting darker, etc. -- When we hear the news at first -- Fuck it. Stupid show, etc. -- We can't do anything about the excrement -- Robert Urich says no. We were so close -- Of course it's cold -- Black Sands Beach is. | |
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| 508 | |a Contains additional work, with added t.p.: Mistakes we knew we were making. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Parents |x Death |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Brothers |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Coming of age |v Anecdotes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Parents. | |
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