How We Are Hungry Contributor(s): Eggers, Dave (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400095565 ISBN-13: 9781400095568 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical and soulful collection of stories from the acclaimed author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Ranging from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), and from the Egyptian desert to the asphalt of Interstate 5, these stories are Eggers at his finest. By turns devastating, clear-eyed and funn - incredibly funny - this collection is a marvel. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2005042321 |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.28" W x 7.96" (0.51 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "These tales reinvigorate...the short story with a jittery sense of adventure." --San Francisco Chronicle What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance She Waits, Seething, Blooming Quiet Your Mother and I Naveed Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned |