num_pages: 496
description: "I think this book is kind of malleable. I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever -- the second I first 'finished' it, I wanted to dig back in and change everything around. So I'm looking forward to getting back into the text, and straightening and focusing and deleting. Most of all, I'm thrilled that Vintage will be letting me include all the cool chase scenes, previously censored." -- Dave EggersThe literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. 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 seven-year-old brother. Here is an 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 is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come.PAPERBACK EDITION -- 15% MORE STAGGERING - Eggers has written 15,000 additional words for the Vintage Canada edition, including an entirely new appendix.
language: English
title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
titlecomplete: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
genres: Fiction, Humor, Unfinished, Contemporary, American, Adult, Literary Fiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 179613
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Memoir
publisher: Vintage Canada