AHWOSG, as he called it, tells the story of his parents' deaths, within weeks of each other, and of how he raised his much younger brother while living a Generation X-er's life in San Francisco.
His first book is still probably his most remarkable. In his spare time, he has also been an influential literary impresario, founding McSweeney's magazine and publishing house, and a successful child literacy campaigner. It's all there, all these things at once, so it's up to you – you choose, you pick." In his relatively short career, Eggers has proved that he is indeed strikingly versatile, moving not just from funny to sad and back again, but from the wildest extremes of exhibitionism to total self-effacement, from navel-gazing to globalised humanitarian concern, from memoir to novel to oral history to children's books. I can do it sad, or inspirational, or angry. "I can do it funny, or maudlin, or just straight, uninflected – anything. "I can do it any way you want," Dave Eggers tells a reality TV producer in his debut, the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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