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Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Picador February 9, 200 0-330-48455-9 / 9780330484558 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together.
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Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Vintage February 13, 20 0-375-72578-4 / 9780375725784 Paperback Good
Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness ag ainst him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of stagge ring genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a l ist of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page ac knowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of t he book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:"). But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan an d a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is ap pointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattere d about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swing s between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing biza rre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.) The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to
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