Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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- ISBN 9781035060276
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
A number one New York Times Bestseller
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college student who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating debut, at once hilarious and wildly inventive, reinvented the memoir for the twenty-first century.
‘Virtuosic’ – The New York Times
‘Prodigious’ – The Irish Times
‘Shocking’ – The London Review of Books
‘Moving’ – The Washington Post
Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s, a quarterly journal and website, and his books include You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, and What is the What. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and Ocean Navigator. He is the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Northern California.
