{"product_id":"heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius","title":"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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319245480318,"sku":"NW9780330456715","price":9.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780330456715.jpg?v=1778244570","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}