A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 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.
Read by . . : Dion Graham
Publisher . : Recorded Books (2010). MP070
ISBN...: 14407941469781440794148
Format...: MP3. 14 tracks, 578 MB
Bitrate . . : ~100 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Mono, 44.1 kHz)
Source...: 2 MP3 CDs (128 kbps, joint stereo, ~13.5 hours)
Genre...: Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir
Unabridged .: Unabridged
Combined tracks by chapter.
Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scans included.
Note: the last track is the Preface, apparently intentional
to have this last - not included in the original print publication.