A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Pulitzer Prize Finalist

ISBN-13:	9780375725784
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/13/2001
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	60,631
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1050L (what's this?)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. • From the bestselling author of The Circle.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving 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. This exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.