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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Eggers, Dave.

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius - New York. Vintage Books. 12/18/2009 - xvii, 437, 48 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

Addendum bound upside down.

0375725784 (pbk.)

00043832


Eggers, Dave.
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Brothers -- Biography.
Coming of age.