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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) 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. Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as big, dari...view more
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