And it is almost too good to be believed' - London Review of Books 'A hilarious book ...In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole' - Time 'Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger ...He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear ...His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries' - Washington Post
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 1
And it is almost too good to be believed' - London Review of Books 'A hilarious book ...In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole' - Time 'Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger ...He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear ...His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries' - Washington Post
- ISBN:
- 9780330456715
- 9780330456715
- Category:
- Biography: general
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 21-09-2007
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Edition:
- 3rd Edition
- Pages:
- 496
- Dimensions (mm):
- 199x130x31mm
- Weight:
- 0.32kg
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Actually lives up to the tongue-in-cheek grandiosity of its title. Dave Eggers, while lightly mocking himself and those around him through his own coming-of-age tale has created a really spectacular book.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Enough said!
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