Book
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius ; Mistakes we knew we were making
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Physical Description
xvii, 437, 48 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
A memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.
Notes
Addendum bound upside down.
Contains additional work, with added t.p.: Mistakes we knew we were making.
Contents
- Incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors
- Through the small tall bathroom window, etc.
- Please look, can you see us, etc.
- Enemies list, etc.
- Oh I could be going out, sure
- Outside its blue-black-getting darker, etc.
- When we hear the news at First
- Fuck it. Stupid show, etc.
- We can't do anything about the excrement
- Robert Urich says no. We were so close
- Of course it's cold
- Black Sands Beach is.