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“[ AHWOSG ] never comes on as oppressive or self-pitying. Eggers has instead pitched his tone at an uncommon sort of irony, using it not as a device to keep us at arm’s length but to involve us—to make the story of his life tellable, and thus, somehow, survivable. Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes. . . . And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too.” —The Times (London)

Pages: 485, Edition: First Paperback Edition, Paperback, Vintage

"Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three, I was twenty-one, Toph was eight, and all of us were so tried already, from that winter. So when something world come up, any little thing, some bill to pay or decision to make, he would just sigh, his eyes tired, his mouth in a sorry kind of smile. But Beth and I...Jesus, we were fighting with everyone...

This is a 4 page argumentative essay on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. It has no outside sources and is presented in MLA format. How the author sees his interview for MTV's Real World San Francisco is discussed as well as the opportunity the author wants. The message this episode sends to the audience of the book is examined as well as how that message compares with the message the author wants to send through MTV's Real World.

This paper expresses the fact that McCall was driven through a need to acquire power in his community, thus seeking out power through joining gangs, through participating in violence and murder, and through eventually reaching the other side of the prison system and onto a successful career as a journalist. This power is first expressed in terms of physical power over other individuals, and finally manifest as a sense of values that McCall is able to place over his own life. 5 pgs. Bibliography...