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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Eggers, Dave
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684863472
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863474
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed, "D. E., 9/12/00" on title page. Later printing. Very good in like jacket with a small dent on the back panel near the spine.
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's Inventory #
- 633
- Title
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Author
- Eggers, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684863472
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863474
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
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