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A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS
by Eggers, Dave
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684863472
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863474
- Seller
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WOODSTOCK, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Author's DEBUT book, a quasi-memoir, selected by the NYT as one of the 10 best books of 2000. Finalist for the National Book Award. Book is clean and tight. DJ has 2 closed tears at top corners with a minor cut a top of spine. Looks great in a archival cover.
Synopsis
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents. The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time Magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year.
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- Bookseller
- BIAbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003327
- Title
- A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS
- Author
- Eggers, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684863472
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863474
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- DAVE EGGERS
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