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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Dave Eggers |
| Fiction Genre: |
Biography & Autobiography |
| Awards: |
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award |
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Professional Reviews
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Washington Post Book World: "Eggers is a pleasingly complicated writer, constitutionally incapable of simple reflection; he always considers the multiplicity of paradoxical feelings and motivations behind a thing, as though only in descending orbit around this morass of complexity, this chaotic internal dialectic, can he get us closer to what he calls his 'core,' the thing that 'can't be articulated. Only caricatured.' He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear. At its best, his book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 496
Publisher: Vintage Books (February 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.12"(w) x 1"(d), 0.85 lbs.
ISBN: 9780375725784 |
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is grey and scratchy, the trees calligraphic. |
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First you took [the title] at face value, and picked it up immediately. "This is just the sort of book for which I have been looking!" Many of you, particularly those among you who seek out the maudlin and melodramatic, were struck by the "Heartbreaking" part. Others thought the "Staggering Genius" element seemed like a pretty good recommendation. But then you thought, Hey, can these two elements work together? Or might they be like peanut butter and chocolate, plaid and paisley--never to peacefully coexist? Which is to say nothing of the faux (real? No, you beg, please no) boastfulness of the whole title put together. In the end, one's only logical interpretation of the title's intent is as a) a cheap kind of joke b) buttressed by an interest in lamely executed titular innovation (employed, one suspects, only to shock) which is c) undermined of course by the cheap joke aspect, and d) confused by the creeping feeling one gets that the author is dead serious in his feeling that the title is an accurate descr |
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