How We Are Hungry: Stories - Hardcover

Eggers, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932416137 ISBN 13: 9781932416138

Publisher: McSweeney's, 2004

Synopsis

Dave Eggers presents his first collection of short stories. The characters are roaming, searching, and often struggling, and revelations do not always arrive on schedule. Precisely crafted and boldly experimental, How We Are Hungry simultaneously embraces and expands the boundaries of the short story.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

omments on previously-released stories:

"The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water," originally published in Zoetrope: All Story, was named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and included in the Best American Magazine Writing 2004.

"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)

"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned" is a small tour de force that ratifies [Eggers¹s] ability to write about anything with style and vigor and genuine emotion. --Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times

About the Author:

Dave Eggers is the editor of the quarterly journal McSweeney¹s and of a yearly collection for younger readers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He edits that collection with high school students from 826 Valencia, the educational nonprofit he founded in 2002. 826 Valencia seeks to involve the community in after-school and in-school tutoring in English and writing. Eggers is currently at work on It Was Just Boys Walking, a biography of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from Sudan now living in Atlanta; and Teachers Have It Easy, about the need for higher teacher salaries, coauthored with Ninive Calegari and Daniel Moulthrop. Eggers teaches writing at 826 Valencia and journalism at UC Berkeley¹s Graduate School of Journalism.

About this edition

• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932416137
• ISBN 13: 9781932416138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240