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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. (Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit.)
by EGGERS, Dave
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- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0684863472
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863474
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About This Item
Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2000. First Dutch edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Dutch edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. This is the first Dutch translation of Dave Eggers first book. Browning to some of the pages because two different kinds of paper stock were used. Signed by the author on the title page.
Synopsis
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.
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- Sawtooth Books
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 20596
- Title
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. (Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit.)
- Author
- EGGERS, Dave
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Dutch edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684863472
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863474
- Publisher
- Vassallucci
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 2000
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