TY - BOOK AU - Eggers,Dave TI - A heartbreaking work of staggering genius SN - 0375725784 U1 - 973.92 EGG PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Eggers, Dave. KW - Parents KW - Death KW - Psychological aspects KW - Brothers KW - Biography KW - Coming of age KW - Siblings N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -