Book description
How We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers's short
stories that twist and inspire the imagination
Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so
magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and through
its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendant. Yet while
celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also proved himself time
and again one of the modern masters of the form.
This unmissable collection is Egger's first, and showcases his
talents in a variety of stories that are short-short, short-long and
every length in between; and in stories that are dark, funny,
inspiring, daring and endlessly inventive (including the acclaimed 'Up
the Mountain Coming Down Slowly'). In short, in stories that will make
you appreciate that Dave Eggers and the short story were made for each
other - and, in turn, for you.
'Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his
generation' Independent
'Brilliant, confident floods of language' Sunday Herald
'Intensely pleasurable, striking in its beauty...a triumph of both
form and content' Guardian
Award-winning author Dave Eggers is the editor and founder of
American literary journal McSweeney's and the founder of 826 Valencia,
a non-profit literacy centre for disadvantaged young people in San
Francisco. He is the author of several novels, collections of short
stories and non-fiction works, including his first novel A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What is the What
(winner of the Prix Medici and finalist of the 2006 National Book
Critics Circle Award), Zeitoun (winner of the American Book
Award and the LA Times Book Award), The Wild Things (a novel
adapted from the illustrated book Where the Wild Things Are by
Maurice Sendak), You Shall Know Our Velocity and, most
recently, A Hologram for the King.
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity and How We Are Hungry. He is also
the editor of America's finest literary journal, McSweeney's, and the
founder of 826 Valencia, a non-profit educational centre/pirate supply
store in San Francisco.
