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Author Eggers, Dave.

Title A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1437775~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO EGGERS    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Biography  BIO EGGERS    AVAILABLE
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Description xvii, 437 pages ; 21 cm
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.
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.
Subject Eggers, Dave.
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Brothers -- Biography.
Coming of age.
ISBN 0375725784 (pbk.)
9780375725784 (pbk.)
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