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Authors Dave Eggers
Fiction Genre Biography & Autobiography
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award
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  New York Times: "Mr. Eggers demonstrates in this book that he can pretty much write on anything. He can turn a Frisbee game with his brother into an existential meditation on life. He can convey the wild, caffeinated joy he feels after seeing a friend wake up from a coma. And he can turn his efforts to scatter his mother's ashes in Lake Michigan into a story that's both a lyrical tribute to her passing and a crude, slapstick account of his ineptitude as a mourner, lugging about a canister of ashes that reminds him, creepily, of the Ark of the Covenant in the Spielberg movie. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS may start off sounding like one of those coy, solipsistic exercises that put everything in little ironic quote marks, but it quickly becomes a virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of book that noisily announces the debut of a talented--yes, staggeringly talented new writer."
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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books (February 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.12"(w) x 1"(d), 0.85 lbs.
ISBN: 9780375725784
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  Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is grey and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.
 

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