A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers is a 2000 Biography & Memoir book written by TED speaker Dave Eggers, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "My wish: Once Upon a School" (2008), 1.8M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 8 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 1st of 8 books by Dave Eggers on Books Worth Reading (2000–2018), by publication year.
- Edition: Macmillan General Books, 2000 · 437 pages
The paired TED talk
My wish: Once Upon a School (2008), the TED talk by Dave Eggers.
From the publisher
From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.
The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times