{"product_id":"a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius-by-dave-eggers","title":"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers","description":"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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . Profoundly moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAHWOSG 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd it is almost too good to be believed’ – London Review of Books ‘A hilarious book . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries’ – Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Prismatic Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618662351159,"sku":"11081","price":99.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/3097\/1447\/files\/A-Heartbreaking-Work-of-Staggering-Genius-by-Dave-Eggers_1f4f31508f8f4f670bf9fda16ac77670.jpg?v=1769514778","url":"https:\/\/shop.prismaticpages.com\/products\/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius-by-dave-eggers","provider":"Prismatic Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}