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- Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
- Publisher: Vintage
- On Sale: February 13, 2001
- Price: $15.00
- ISBN: 978-0-375-72578-4 (0-375-72578-4)
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"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a fine book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly. Eggers' most powerful prose is often his most straightforward, relying on old-fashioned truth telling for its punch." —The New York Times Book Review
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.
"This edition of A.H.W.O.S.G. contains countless changes, sentence by sentence, many additions to the body of the text, and it also contains...an appendix, featuring corrections, notations, updates, tangential remarks and clarifications."—David Eggers
