About the Book
How We Are Hungry has sold 6,000 hardback copies in the UK.
Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his McSweeney's magazine and its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendancy. Yet while celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also proved time and again that he himself is one of the modern masters of the form. This unmissable collection is Eggers's first, and showcases his talents in a variety of stories that are short-short, short-long and every length in between; and in stories that are dark, funny, inspiring, daring and endlessly inventive (including the acclaimed Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly). In short, these stories will make you appreciate that Dave Eggers and the short story were made for each other - and in turn, for you.
About the Author :
Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Medicis Etranger.
He is the founder of McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world, and of ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and is the cofounder of Voice of Witness, a book series that illuminates human rights crises through oral history.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letter. His work has been translated into forty- two languages.
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Review :
"These tales reinvigorate that staid old form, the short story, with a jittery sense of adventure. . . . [Eggers] does things that should be impossible, and he does them gracefully." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"A tour de force. . . . [Eggers'] prose is supple, transparent and surprising." --"The New York Times Book Review"""
"The man can simply write extraordinarily well. . . . How We Are Hungry""is a triumph of both form and content. . . . Dave Eggers is the real thing." --"The Guardian "(London)
"Beautiful stories, anchored in the real world, with more bodies and objects than concepts or abstractions. There is a sense of human exuberance in the clean, swift language. . . . It looks like a classic." --"The Oregonian"
"It's [the] tension between our base and noble impulses, our so-called animal and refined natures, that gives How We Are Hungry""its momentum. . . . Eggers is phenomenally talented--maybe uniquely so." --"The Washington Post"
"Full of the
" These tales reinvigorate that staid old form, the short story, with a jittery sense of adventure. . . . [Eggers] does things that should be impossible, and he does them gracefully." - "San Francisco Chronicle"
" A tour de force. . . . [Eggers'] prose is supple, transparent and surprising." - "The New York Times Book Review"" "
" The man can simply write extraordinarily well. . . . How We Are Hungry" "is a triumph of both form and content. . . . Dave Eggers is the real thing." - "The Guardian "(London)
" Beautiful stories, anchored in the real world, with more bodies and objects than concepts or abstractions. There is a sense of human exuberance in the clean, swift language. . . . It looks like a classic." - "The Oregonian"
" It's [the] tension between our base and noble impulses, our so-called animal and refined natures, that gives How We Are Hungry" "its momentum. . . . Eggers is phenomenally talented--maybe uniquely so." - "The Washington Post"
" Full of the raw stuff of lives. The pain and the anger. Emotions that get mixed up and change from one minute to the next. The wonder and the joy. It's all condensed and crafted, working, that's what fiction is. But it feels raw, and it's exhilarating. . . . And that's not even getting into how electrically funny Eggers can be." - "The Globe and Mail"
" 'After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned' is a small tour de force that ratifies [Eggers's] ability to write about anything with style and vigor and genuine emotion." - "The New York Times"
" Haunting character-driven narratives. . . .Eggers is a master." - "Entertainment Weekly"
" ['Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly' is] a masterpiece. . . . The narration is magisterial, without a false note. . . . It may well be the last great twentieth-century short story." - "The Observer" (London)
" One of the many pleasures in reading How We Are Hungry," "Eggers' recent collection of stories, is that it reminds you of his abilities as a writer. He can dazzle . . . he can move effortlessly between classic storytelling and the more experimental." - "Salon"
" There's stunning writing here. Subtle, epigrammatic, candid and thoughtful." - "Herald "(London)
" While some story collections forsake the everyday for the exotic, Dave Eggers' How We Are Hungry finds meaning in the back yards of America as easily as amidst the surf of Costa Rica- with the revelation that sometimes, the heaviest things we carry on a journey are our own thoughts." - "The Philadelphia City Paper"
" As always, Eggers finds his place between outrageous humor and disastrous sadness. . . . [His stories] don't quit resonating until long after the last sentence is finished." - "Newcity Chicago"
" It's not surprising that short stories would turn out to be [Eggers'] best fiction milieu. . . . He plays with format and content alike, and the results are as remarkable as they are intrepid." - "The Onion"
" [These] stories and sequences . . . move and disturb in unexpected, even shocking ways." - "Times Literary Supplement "(U.K.)
" If all writing had the sense of moral purpose Eggers displays, the worldwould be a sharper, livelier place." - "The Journal News"
"These tales reinvigorate that staid old form, the short story, with a jittery sense of adventure. . . . [Eggers] does things that should be impossible, and he does them gracefully." -"San Francisco Chronicle"
"A tour de force. . . . [Eggers'] prose is supple, transparent and surprising." -"The New York Times Book Review"" "
"The man can simply write extraordinarily well. . . . How We Are Hungry" "is a triumph of both form and content. . . . Dave Eggers is the real thing." -"The Guardian "(London)
"Beautiful stories, anchored in the real world, with more bodies and objects than concepts or abstractions. There is a sense of human exuberance in the clean, swift language. . . . It looks like a classic." -"The Oregonian"
"It's [the] tension between our base and noble impulses, our so-called animal and refined natures, that gives How We Are Hungry" "its momentum. . . . Eggers is phenomenally talented--maybe uniquely so." -"The Washington Post"
"Full of the raw stuff of lives. The pain and the anger. Emotions that get mixed up and change from one minute to the next. The wonder and the joy. It's all condensed and crafted, working, that's what fiction is. But it feels raw, and it's exhilarating. . . . And that's not even getting into how electrically funny Eggers can be." -"The Globe and Mail"
"'After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned' is a small tour de force that ratifies [Eggers's] ability to write about anything with style and vigor and genuine emotion." -"The New York Times"
"Haunting character-driven narratives. . . . Eggers is a master." -"Entertainment Weekly"
"['Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly' is] a masterpiece. . . . The narration ismagisterial, without a false note. . . . It may well be the last great twentieth-century short story." -"The Observer" (London)
"One of the many pleasures in reading How We Are Hungry," "Eggers' recent collection of stories, is that it reminds you of his abilities as a writer. He can dazzle . . . he can move effortlessly between classic storytelling and the more experimental." -"Salon"
"There's stunning writing here. Subtle, epigrammatic, candid and thoughtful." -"Herald "(London)
"While some story collections forsake the everyday for the exotic, Dave Eggers' How We Are Hungry finds meaning in the back yards of America as easily as amidst the surf of Costa Rica-with the revelation that sometimes, the heaviest things we carry on a journey are our own thoughts." -"The Philadelphia City Paper"
"As always, Eggers finds his place between outrageous humor and disastrous sadness. . . . [His stories] don't quit resonating until long after the last sentence is finished." -"Newcity Chicago"
"It's not surprising that short stories would turn out to be [Eggers'] best fiction milieu. . . . He plays with format and content alike, and the results are as remarkable as they are intrepid." -"The Onion"
"[These] stories and sequences . . . move and disturb in unexpected, even shocking ways." -"Times Literary Supplement "(U.K.)
"If all writing had the sense of moral purpose Eggers displays, the world would be a sharper, livelier place." -"The Journal News"
