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American literature

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  In American literature: Multicultural writing
  (1999); and Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), a painful but comic tour de force, half tongue-in-cheek, about a young man raising his brother after the death of their parents.
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discussed in biography

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  In Dave Eggers
  …literacy advocate whose breakout memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), was followed by other fiction and nonfiction successes. He also founded the publishing house McSweeney’s in 1998.
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use of irony

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  stereotypes, while Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) explores irony’s boundaries.
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