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?Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I?d say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too? Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times ?Is this how all orphans would speak ? ?I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I know? ? if they had Dave Eggers?s prodigious linguistic gifts? For he does write wonderfully, and this is an extremely impressive debut? John Banville, Irish Times ?A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book that noisily announces the debut of a talented ? yes, staggeringly talented ? new writer? ? Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ?Exhilarating . . . Profoundly moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious . . . A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly? ? New York Times Book Review ?What is really shocking and exciting is the book?s sheer rage. AHWOSG is truly ferocious, like any work of genius. Eggers ? self-reliant, transcendent, expansive ? is Emerson?s ideal Young American. [The book] does itself justice: it is a settling of accounts. And it is almost too good to be believed? ? London Review of Books ?A hilarious book . . . In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life?s most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole? ? Time ?Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger . . . He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear . . . His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries? ? Washington Post