Format:
Book
Author:
Eggers, Dave, author.
Title:
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Description:
xvii, 437, 48 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
A memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply hearfelt story of the love that holds a family together.
Subjects:
Eggers, Dave.
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Brothers -- Biography.
Notes:
Addendum bound upside down.
Contains additional work, with added t.p.: Mistakes we knew we were making.
Contents:
Incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors -- Through the small tall bathroom window, etc. -- Please look, can you see us, etc. -- Enemies list, etc. -- Oh I could be going out, sure -- Outside its blue-black-getting darker, etc. -- When we hear the news at first -- Fuck it. Stupid show, etc. -- We can't do anything about the excrement -- Robert Urich says no. We were so close -- Of course it's cold -- Black Sands Beach is.
LCCN:
00043832
ISBN:
0375725784
9780375725784
9781417632244
1417632240
9781435236691
1435236696
9780375725784
0684863472
0375725784
Other Number:
44905027
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
598610
Call Number:
BIO Eggers
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2