How We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers'
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, and, A Hologram for the
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