A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Record details
- ISBN: 9780375725784 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0375725784 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xvii, 437, 48 p. ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Addendum bound upside down. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors -- Through the small tall bathroom window, etc. -- Please look, can you see us, etc. -- Enemies list, etc. -- Oh I could be going out, sure -- Outside its blue-black-getting darker, etc. -- When we hear the news at First -- Fuck it. Stupid show, etc. -- We can't do anything about the excrement -- Robert Urich says no. We were so close -- Of course it's cold -- Black Sands Beach is. |
Summary, etc.: | A memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply hearfelt story of the love that holds a family together. |
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Subject: | Coming of age Brothers Biography Parents Death Psychological aspects Eggers, Dave |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Easton Public Library. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Easton Public Library | MEM EGGERS, DAVE (Text) | 37777123520041 | Adult Memoir | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | B EGGERS Egg (Text) | 33110143366381 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | EGG (Text) | 33210000219282 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Deep River Public Library | B Eggers (Text) | 36039000256616 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | B E249h (Text) | 34000073635385 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Salem Free Public Library | B EGGERS (Text) | 33640143752974 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Thomaston Public Library | 973.92 EGG (Text) | 34020107146662 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Union Free Public Library | 973.92 EGG (Text) | 34913000198998 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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