A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Eggers, Dave
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Milford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
First American edition, with full number line.
375 pages. A very good copy of author's celebrated first book.
Gripping account of teenagers acting as parents to a younger brother, protecting him from the big, bad world.
Hardcover, with minor wear to book edges.
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
- Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2239
- Title
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Author
- Eggers, Dave
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Full number line
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