How We Are Hungry: Stories by Dave Eggers
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0676977804 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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These pieces demonstrate the same startling geographic range and sly descriptive acuity that animated You Shall Know Our Velocity. It’s all condensed and crafted, worked, that’s what fiction is. The pain and the anger. Eggers does things that should be impossible, and he does them gracefully.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Beautiful stories, anchored in the real world…. Eggers’s prose is supple, transparent and surprising.”—The New York Times Book Review “Electrically funny full of the raw stuff of lives. How We Are Hungry looks like a classic.”—The Oregonian“A tour de force. But it feels raw, and it’s exhilarating.”—The Globe and Mail“There’s plenty in this collection to remind us that, for al
Dave Eggers and his wife live in Northern California. He edits a magazine, McSweeney's, and teaches at 826 Valencia in San Franciscosweeneys
Left "Hungry" EA Solinas Dave Eggers first caught the world's attention with the semi-autobiographical "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." With the release of "How We Are Hungry," we get to see Eggers in a slightly new light -- these stories possess his usual postmodern skill and pensive intelligence, but lack the gentle humor and wit.In this collection, Eggers examines various people who try to escape their difficultie. "Ten years ago" according to J B. Well it's ten years on now, and this book is still fresh. I was surprised at the lack of reviews. I understand and accept the critical reviews this book has gotten since 2005, but I sincerely believe this book deserves a second look now. It's a sort of Neil Gaiman experience, but with less obvious whimsy and more of a working class magic realism that does not require Kinder- und Hausmärchen themes t
By turns devastating, clear-eyed and funn – incredibly funny – this collection is a marvel.. 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