A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Dave Eggers Dion Graham First published 2000

About this book

From Wikipedia: 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, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times

Subjects

18.06
973.92/092
american authors
authors, biography
b
bereavement
bildungsromane
bildungsromans
biography
biography and autobiography
brothers
brothers--biography
child rearing
coming of age
cooking
css faculty reading list: bret johnson
ct275.e37 a3 2001
death
death, psychological aspects
domestic fiction
eggers, dave
families
family
hu 9800
large type books
medicine in literature
parents
parents--death--psychological aspects
parents--psychological aspects
psychological aspects
quick and easy cooking
siblings
terminally ill parents
young men