01567cam a2200289 4500 65527548 TxAuBib 20100804120000.0 000816s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00043832 9780375725784 pbk. $15.00 0375725784 pbk. $15.00 (OCoLC)44905027 TxAuBib Eggers, Dave. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers. (paperback - black spine.) New York : Vintage Books, 2001. xvii, 437, 48 p. ; 21 cm. Incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors -- Through the small tall bathroom window, etc. -- Please look, can you see us, etc. -- Enemies list, etc. -- Oh I could be going out, sure -- Outside its blue-black-getting darker, etc. -- When we hear the news at First -- Fuck it. Stupid show, etc. -- We can't do anything about the excrement -- Robert Urich says no. We were so close -- Of course it's cold -- Black Sands Beach is. A memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply hearfelt story of the love that holds a family together. 20100804. Eggers, Dave. Parents Death Psychological aspects. Brothers Biography. TXMLR