A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (or AHWoSG) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.

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Memoir - Dave Eggers - 2000 - Stewardship - Christopher "Toph" Eggers - Cancer

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The book was an enormous 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 manic-depressive" by The New York Times. However, some readers and critics felt Eggers? writing was undisciplined and self-indulgent, as it relies on a self-referential post-modern structure.

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''The New York Times'' bestseller list - Pulitzer Prize - Time Magazine - Newspapers - Prose - The New York Times - Self-referential - Post-modern

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