How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers

How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers

These tales reinvigorate.the short story with a jittery sense of adventure. --San Francisco Chronicle

Dave Eggers--Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and author of What Is the What and The Circle, among other books--demonstrates his mastery of the short story.

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What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust

The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water

On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home

Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance

She Waits, Seething, Blooming

Quiet

Your Mother and I

Naveed

Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone

About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her

Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly

After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney's publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco's Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. Eggers's work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France's Prix M'dicis, Germany's Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. His novels include The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and Heroes of the Frontier.

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ISBN 13	9781400095568
ISBN 10	1400095565
Title	How We Are Hungry
Author	Dave Eggers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-10-11
Number of pages	224
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