A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers


ISBN
9780330484558
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
544
Dimensions
130 x 197 x 34mm

This is an extremely self-conscious memoir in which Dave Eggers writes about pain in the only honest way available to him - with finite jest and fictionalisation.

When he was twenty-one, Dave Eggers' parents died of cancer within weeks of each other, and he became a sibling-parent to his eight-year-old brother. The two lived together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worried obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swung between making his brother's upbringing maniacally fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him.

This book is the story of that time: an inventive and heartfelt memoir about love and loss of a most terrible kind. This new paperback edition includes a dozen new passages,a nd an entirely new appendix.

At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labour, Eggers is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher.
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