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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Publisher's Synopsis

Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was 7. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together.

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Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781447275046
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 973.92092
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 580g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 40mm

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