Dave Eggers

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When their friend Jack is killed in a bizarre accident, Will and Hand--lifelong friends, both 20-somethings, both from Milwaukee--go off on a trip that takes them to Senegal, Morocco, and the Baltic states. They also have a great deal of money that...

Publication Date: Jul 2003

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Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. After the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could....

Publication Date: Jun 2010

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

A respected magazine editor/founder and onetime spokesman for Generation X offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly tradition-shattering memoir that discusses the deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more....

Publication Date: Feb 2001

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading

by Dave Eggers

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a...

Publication Date: Oct 2005

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What Is the What

by Dave Eggers

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks,...

Publication Date: Oct 2007

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How We Are Hungry

by Dave Eggers

This collection of 15 of Dave Eggers's stories includes some that have been highly acclaimed and several that have never been published before. 'Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance' is about a young man coping with his cousin's suicide...

Publication Date: Jan 2004

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2002)

by Dave Eggers

This brilliant collection highlights a bold mix of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and more alternative comics than ever. Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, contributors include Judy...

Publication Date: Oct 2002

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A Hologram for the King

by Dave Eggers

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A...

Publication Date: Jun 2013

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McSweeney's At War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared (Quarterly Concern Issue 14)

by Dave Eggers

Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil (Rhombomys Opimus) of central...

Publication Date: Sep 2004

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McSweeney's Issue 21 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

by Dave Eggers

McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines. Today, it attracts work from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, and William T....

Publication Date: Oct 2006

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The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2

by Dave Eggers

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern features every kind of writing you can imagine, plus a few brand new kinds. The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2 features science fiction, immigration drama, and naval disasters. There are tragically dysfunctional...

Publication Date: Aug 2009

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