| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 437, 48 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Addendum bound upside down. |
| Contents |
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 and 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.1 21.0 74907. |
| Subject |
Eggers, Dave.
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Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Brothers -- Biography.
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Coming of age.
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| ISBN |
0375725784 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780375725784 |
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