Fiction • Vintage
Canada • Trade Paperback, 224 pages• October
2005 • $19.95 • 0-676-97780-4
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 funny – incredibly funny – this collection
is a marvel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
photo credit: Eduardo de la
Mangana
Dave Eggers and his wife live in Northern California.
He edits a magazine, McSweeney's, and teaches
at 826 Valencia in San Francisco. |