About the Book: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
''Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, Id say so. And if genius is
capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too Anthony
Quinn, Sunday Times
'Is this how all orphans would speak "I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I
know" if they had Dave Eggerss prodigious linguistic gifts? For he does write
wonderfully, and this is an extremely impressive debut John Banville, Irish
Times
'A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book
that noisily announces the debut of a talented yes, staggeringly talented new
writer Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
'Exhilarating