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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: 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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Named Person: Dave Eggers
Material Type: Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 0375725784 9780375725784
OCLC Number: 44905027
Notes: Addendum bound upside down.
Description: xvii, 437, 48 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: by Dave Eggers.
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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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