A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by EGGERS, Dave
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0330484540
- ISBN 13
- 9780330484541
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Picador, 2000. Hardback. First edition, 2000. First printing. Immaculate condition with grey cloth boards with unfaded silver embossed lettering to spine. Quote stamp to front 'Mercy is not a cure, quiet has its own set of problems'. NF un-clipped dust jacket. Further details and images available on request. Published: Picador, 2000
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8873
- Title
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Author
- EGGERS, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330484540
- ISBN 13
- 9780330484541
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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