How We Are Hungry

Name: How We Are Hungry
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9781461813606

Author: Dave Eggers

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers is the voice of a generation. This stunning collection of his matchless short fiction includes the highly acclaimed "The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water." "Eggers imagines emotionally and symbolically resonant scenes as well as any of his contemporaries, and this collection has several great ones."-Booklist

About Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer:, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries, Wholphin; and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on August 26, 2007

Ah, another Dave Eggers book. I keep reading these and I might have to admit to liking his work. This is a book of short stories. Here is why this is a better book than A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: because the stories he wrote, are short stories. Eggers can’t meander here and there, an......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on June 23, 2007

I'm sorry, Dave Eggers. I am so, so sorry, because I love you (yes, personally), I love AHWOSG, I love You Shall Know Our Velocity, and I love What is the What. But I did not love this book. At first I just thought I didn't like the shift from novel to short story, but I can handle it from Wallace,......more

Goodreads review by Oscar on March 31, 2019

Dave Eggers es uno de los mejores escritores jóvenes norteamericanos del momento. Perteneciente a la next generation, junto a autores de la talla de David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen o Jonathan Lethem, Eggers ha sabido buscarse un hueco entre tan grandes compañeros. Eggers nos habla en ‘Guardian......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on November 10, 2014

How The Water Feels to Fishes Review (done in the style of every story in this book): He used to think he and Dave Eggers were the same. He thought they shared the same values, found humor in the same things. But he got older, and so did Dave Eggers. And the things he found funny, interesting, and va......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on December 09, 2014

"GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's ha......more