Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Name: Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781035060276

by Unknown Author

496 pages2025Pan MacmillanISBN 9781035060276

BiographyMemoir

About this book

An instant contemporary classic A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction A number one New York Times Bestseller A stunning memoir chronicling profound grief and comic absurdity 'Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too' - The Sunday Times Dave Eggers' parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was twenty-one and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. Hilarious and deeply heartfelt, this is the story of their life together. 'Virtuosic' - The New York Times 'Prodigious' - The Irish Times 'Shocking' - The London Review of Books 'Moving' - The Washington Post

Publication Details

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2025
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9781035060276
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/about-dave-eggers