Product Details Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: It Books; 1 edition (October 13, 2009) Language: English

Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are

Dave Eggers

Editors Of Mcsweeney's

Spike Jonze

Teen & Young Adult

It Books

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps they'll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every step and the natives prove far from grateful to their benefactors, Will and Hand find that the world is an infinitely bigger, more surreal and exhilarating place than they ever realised. In fact, it's somewhere to get lost in!

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy &amp; Abdulrahman Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind &amp; water. Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs &amp; rescuing survivors. But nothing could prepare him for the nightmare that followed.

Zeitoun. Dave Eggers

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Vintage

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

Forty Stories

Donald BARTHELME

Penguin??Books

This volume brings together the most promising young American authors, with a penchant for writing about such slippery subjects as snakes, letter-writing dogs, chicken livers and indoor shopping malls.

The Burned Children of America

Short Stories & Anthologies

Hamish Hamilton

The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 - the second instalment of Dave Eggers's crash course in what McSweeney's is all about - brings together more stories from the first ten issues of the magazine. Jonathan Ames, Judy Budnitz, Glen David Gold, Jonathan Lethem and A.M. Homes are amongst the writers spreading their wings in this fine collection and showing once more why McSweeney's is now a byword for brilliance, innovation and the unexpected.

Best of McSweeney's Volume 2

Gardners Books

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation — and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.

What Is the What

Arts & Literature

What is the What

Mcsweeney's

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