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How We Are Hungry

Stories

By Dave Eggers

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| Hardcover | 9781932416138

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How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range 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 andContinue

How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range 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"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.

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  • Short cuts to the real thing

    How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers 224pp, Hamish Hamilton, £12.99 It is almost impossible to read Dave Eggers without the cult of Dave Eggers intervening. The hype surrounding this counterestablishment literary entrepreneur has spread so rapidly since ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • So, Dave, explain the anteater

    How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers Hamish Hamilton £12.99, pp224 A better title for this book of short stories might have been How We Are Clever. Dave Eggers, the brains behind the alternative publishing initiative McSweeney's, who made a memorable deb ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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