{"product_id":"a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius","title":"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '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, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Exhilarating . . . Profoundly moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious . . . \u003ci\u003eA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\u003c\/i\u003e is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly' - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'What is really shocking and exciting is the book's sheer rage. \u003ci\u003e AHWOSG\u003c\/i\u003e 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' - \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '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' - \u003ci\u003e Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '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' - \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53849817219410,"sku":"9780330456715","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_ce924b04-8f75-4a8d-90c2-c5b59e17416e.jpg?v=1782518613","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}