How we are hungry: stories
(Book)
How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.
Eggers, D. (2004). How we are hungry: stories. San Francisco, McSweeney's Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eggers, Dave. 2004. How We Are Hungry: Stories. San Francisco, McSweeney's Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eggers, Dave, How We Are Hungry: Stories. San Francisco, McSweeney's Books, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eggers, Dave. How We Are Hungry: Stories. San Francisco, McSweeney's Books, 2004.
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