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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Hardcover
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Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (August 1, 2000)
9781568959092 | details & prices | 543 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $29.95
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from Simon & Schuster (February 1, 2000)
9780684863474 | details & prices | 375 pages | 6.75 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $24.00
About: A respected magazine editor and founder, a onetime spokesman for Generation X, offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly traditionshattering memoir that discusses deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Vintage Books (February 1, 2001)
9780375725784 | details & prices | 496 pages | 5.12 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $15.00
About: The author chronicles his life after the deaths of his parents, when he was responsible for the care and upbringing of his eight-year-old brother, and offers a new appendix clarifying, amending, and expanding the original work.
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from Demco Media (February 1, 2002)
9780606206952 | details & prices | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $24.51
About: The author chronicles his life after the deaths of his parents, when he was responsible for the care and upbringing of his eight-year-old brother, and offers a new appendix clarifying, amending, and expanding the original work.
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Reprint edition from Paw Prints (April 3, 2008)
9781435236691 | details & prices | 48 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.02 lbs | List price $23.95
About: National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century.
from Turtleback Books (February 13, 2001)
9781417632244 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $26.90
About: The author chronicles his life after the deaths of his parents, when he was responsible for the care and upbringing of his eight-year-old brother, and offers a new appendix clarifying, amending, and expanding the original work.
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Publisher Vintage Books
Publication date February 1, 2001
Pages 496
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780375725784
ISBN-10 0375725784
Dimensions 1 by 5.12 by 8 in.
Weight 0.85 lbs.
Original list price $15.00
Summary
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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: National Bestseller 

The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. 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. Here is an 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.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. The Vintage edition includes a new appendix by the author.

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