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Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100684863472
ISBN-139780684863474
eBay Product ID (ePID)1180232
Product Key Features
Book TitleHeartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicDeath, Grief, Bereavement, General, Literary, Siblings
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorDave Eggers
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight25.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-053475
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal973.92/092 B
Table Of ContentContents Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book Preface to This Edition Contents Acknowledgments Incomplete Guide to Symbols and Metaphors PART I. THROUGH THE SMALL TALL BATHROOM WINDOW, ETC. Scatology -- video games -- blood -- "blind leaders of the blind" [Bible] -- some violence -- turtles -- embarrassment, naked men -- mapping PART II. PLEASE LOOK. CAN YOU SEE US, ETC. California -- ocean plunging, frothing -- Little League, black mothers -- rotation and substitution -- hills, views, roofs, toothpicks -- numbing and sensation -- Johnny Bench -- motion PART III. THE ENEMIES LIST, ETC. Demotion -- teachers driven before us -- menu -- plane crash -- light -- knife -- Barry Gifford -- State of the Family Room Address -- half-cantaloupes -- so like a fragile girl -- old model, new model -- Bob Fosse Presents PART IV. OH I COULD BE GOING OUT, SURE But no. No no! -- the weight -- seven years one's senior, how fitting -- potential sagging -- John Doe -- decay v. preservation -- burgundy, bolts PART V. OUTSIDE IT'S BLUE-BLACK AND GETTING DARKER, ETC. Stephen, murderer, surely -- The Bridge -- Jon and Pontius Pilate -- John, Moodie, et al. -- Merchant Marine -- lies -- a stolen wallet -- the 99th percentile -- Mexican kids -- lineups, lights -- a trail of blood, and then silence, and then Russia PART VI. WHEN WE HEAR THE NEWS AT FIRST What's In, What's Out -- mailing lists -- daughter of Charles Bronson, stunning -- [some mild nudity] -- Randy Stickrod -- all the hope of history to date -- an interview -- death and suicide -- mistakes -- keg beer -- Mr. T -- Steve the Black Guy -- a death faked, perhaps (the gray car) -- a possible escape, via rope, of sheets -- a broken door -- betrayal justified PART VII. FUCK IT. STUPID SHOW, ETC. Some bitterness, some calculation -- Or anything that looks un-us -- more nudity, still mild -- of color, who is of color? -- Chakka the Pakuni -- hairy all the crotches are, bursting from panties and briefs -- The Marina -- The flying-object maneuver -- drama or blood or his mouth foaming or -- a hundred cymbals -- would you serve them grapes? Would that be wrong? -- "So I'm not allowed" -- Details of all this will be good PART VIII. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE EXCREMENT Elliot Strunk -- The Future -- "Slacker? Not me," laughs Hillman -- Meath: Oh yeah, we love that multicultural stuff -- "Isn't that great?" -- We fill out forms -- a kindly Betty White sort -- "a nightmare WASP utopia" -- a sexual sort of lushness -- There has been Spin the Bottle -- "I don't know" -- "Thank you, Jesus" -- "I'm dying, Shal" PART IX. ROBERT URICH SAYS NO. WE WERE SO CLOSE Laura Branigan, Lori Singer, Ed Begley, Jr. -- to be thought of as smart, legitimate, permanent. So you do your little thing -- a bitchy little thing about her -- a fall -- the halls, shabbily shiny, are filled with people in small clumps -- that Polly Klaas guy giving me the finger at the trial -- Adam, by association, unimpressive PART X. OF COURSE IT'S COLD. The cold when walking off the plane -- plans for a kind of personal archaeological orgy or something, from funeral homes to John Hussa, whose mom heated milk once, after Grizzly -- weddings -- a lesbian agnostic named Minister Lovejoy -- Chad and the copies -- leaf pile -- another threat -- of course she knows -- wouldn't everyone be able to tell? -- the water rising, as if under it already PART XI. BLACK SANDS BEACH IS No hands -- down the hill, the walk -- not NAMBLA -- birthday, parquet -- Skye -- hot, poisoned blood -- jail, bail, the oracle -- more maneuvers -- a fight -- finally
LC Classification NumberCT275.E37A3 2000
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