A heartbreaking work of staggering genius /
by Dave Eggers.
- xlv, 437, 48 pages ; 21 cm
Addendum bound upside down.
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.
Contains additional work, with added t.p.: Mistakes we knew we were making. Contains additional work, with added t.p.: Mistakes we knew we were making.
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.
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Eggers, Dave.
Parents--Death--Psychological aspects. Brothers--Biography. Coming of age. Parents. Siblings. Death.