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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. • From the bestselling author of The Circle.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving 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. This exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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    A Paperback / softback by Dave Eggers

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House Inc
      Published 13 February 2001
      ISBN-13 9780375725784
      978-0375725784
      ISBN-10 0375725784
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      Memoirs Media, entertainment, information Books by Dave Eggers

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      Book Synopsis
      NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. • From the bestselling author of The Circle.

      A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving 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. This exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.

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