A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers audiobook

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

By Dave Eggers
Read by Dion Graham

Recorded Books, Inc. 9780684863474

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781664452268

  • ISBN: 9781664560093

  • ISBN: 9781664721142

Runtime: 13.51 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A 2001 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for General Nonfiction

A 2000 Guardian First Book Award Finalist

A New York Public Library Staff Pick of Favorite Books of the Last 125 Years

Oprah Pick for Best Memoirs of a Generation

The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving 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 heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book.” —New York Times
“Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger…His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries.” —Washington Post
“Funny, wildly intelligent.” —Boston Globe

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Author

Author Bio: Dave Eggers

Author Bio: Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the author of children’s fiction, young adult fiction, science fiction, and more. His works have won the Newbery Medal, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, and is cofounder of 826 National, a network of educational centers around the country offering free tutoring to kids of all backgrounds.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 13.51
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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