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A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering GeniusEditions
Review
Eggers description of his mother’s death is only the first of many efforts to reconcile himself to loss, and the book is immensely moving. In conversations with friends who also read it, I find that we all have parts that hit us forcefully and others we felt were weak. Some find the 40-page preface self-conscious; I find it brilliant. For me, the middle section, about the author’s work on ‘Might’ magazine, founders, but one friend liked that best… Eggers ends with a powerfully felt, and powerfully described, return home. His exuberant style seems but a manifestation of his own omnivorous hunger for life – a defiant response to death. - review by Karen Wadman |
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John Sandoe [Books] Ltd |
Although Rick Moody asserts on the dust jacket that “this book does not need a blurb”, I think it does. In a memoir of a most unusual kind, Eggers dares so much in both subject and style that many readers will recoil from at least one or two of his attempts. The book is about how he and his three siblings lost both parents to cancer within weeks of each other. The 21 year-old thus ends up as father AND mother to the 8 year-old Toph.
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