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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers.

Eggers, Dave. (Author).

Summary:

A onetime spokesman for Generation X, offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly traditionshattering memoir that discusses deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0684863472
  • ISBN: 9780684863474
  • Physical Description: xxxix, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2000]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Incomplete Guide to Symbols and Metaphors xxxviii -- Part I. Through the Small Tall Bathroom Window, Etc. 1 -- Part II. Please Look. Can You See Us, Etc. 43 -- Part III. Enemies List, Etc. 63 -- Part IV. Oh I Could Be Going Out, Sure 93 -- Part V. Outside It's Blue-Black and Getting Darker, Etc. 109 -- Part VI. When We Hear the News at First 147 -- Part VII. Fuck it. Stupid Show, Etc. 209 -- Part VIII. We Can't do Anything About the Excrement 245 -- Part IX. Robert Urich Says No. We Were so Close 271 -- Part X. Of Course it's Cold 301 -- Part XI. Black Sands Beach is 349.
Target Audience Note:
1050L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.1 21 74907.
Subject:
Eggers, Dave.
Brothers > Biography.
Parents > Death > Psychological aspects.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 25 of 25 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rutherford County Library System.

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