A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2000 memoir by Dave Eggers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a 2000 memoir by Dave Eggers. It chronicles his stewardship of his younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.
 First edition | |
| Author | Dave Eggers |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Komar and Melamid |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 2000 (2000) |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 375 |
| ISBN | 0-684-86347-2 |
| OCLC | 42667954 |
| LC Class | CT275.E37 A3 2000 |
The book was a commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times.[1]