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Dave Eggers
'Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too' Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times `Is this how all orphans would speak - "I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I know" - if they had Dave Eggers's prodigious linguistic gifts? For he does write wonderfully, and this is an extremely impressive debut' John Banville, Irish Times `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, New York Times `Exhilarating .
...Profoundly moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious .
...A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly' - New York Times Book Review `What is really shocking and exciting is the book's sheer rage.
AHWOSG is truly ferocious, like any work of genius. Eggers - self-reliant, transcendent, expansive - is Emerson's ideal Young American. [The book] does itself justice: it is a settling of accounts.
And it is almost too good to be believed' - London Review of Books `A hilarious book
In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole' - Time `Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger . . .
He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear . . .
His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries' - Washington Post
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