Name: How we are Hungry
SKU: 1741460
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Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9781400095568

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dave Eggers

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

218

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.2x13.4x1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

1400095565

ISBN13

9781400095568

Synopsis "How we are Hungry "

In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story. "These tales reinvigorate ... the short story with a jittery sense of adventure." --San Francisco ChronicleIncluding the stories: "Another" "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

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Dave Eggers (Boston, 1970) es un escritor, editor y editor estadounidense. Es autor de numerosas obras, entre ellas Una historia conmovedora, asombrosa y genial, Qué es el qué, Un holograma para el rey, El círculo y El ojo y lo imposible, novela por la que recibió la Medalla Newbery en 2024.

Fundó McSweeney’s, una editorial independiente dedicada a la literatura y el humor, y junto con Nínive Calegari creó 826 Valencia, un centro de escritura y tutoría para jóvenes que dio origen a una red de iniciativas similares en distintos países. También fundó ScholarMatch, organización dedicada a facilitar el acceso de estudiantes a la educación superior. A lo largo de su trayectoria ha recibido, entre otros reconocimientos, el American Book Award y el Dayton Literary Peace Prize, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award y del Pulitzer.

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