A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Seventh printing. 8vo. Pp. xxxix, 375. Quarter-bound maroon cloth over grey paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine, blind-stamped to upper board; deckled fore-edge. Dust jacket illustration by Komar & Melamid, with blurbs by Michiko Kakutani, David Remnick, David Sedaris, David Foster Wallace, and Rick Moody. An excerpt, in a somewhat different form, originally appeared in The New Yorker.

Shortlisted for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. TIME magazine's "Best Book of the Year." A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Subsequently chosen by The Times of London as the 12th best book of the decade. Author's first book. Memoir as metafiction draws on the author's formative years when as a college senior he assumed responsibility for his seven-year-old brother, 'Toph', following the cancer-related deaths of their parents. Eggers would go on to found the cult literary quarterly, McSweeney's.

"A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book that noisily announces the debut of a talented – yes, staggeringly talented new writer." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times