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He switches between the forms of narration for each story, adopting one perspective or the other, as is fitting to the story. Oct 11, 2005 i became a dave eggers fan after reading his hologram for a king novel last year. The characters are roaming, searching, and often struggling, and revelations do not always arrive on schedule. How we are hungry king county library system overdrive. Mar 25, 2005 how we are hungry by dave eggers 224pp, hamish hamilton. Dave eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own mcsweeneys magazine and through its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendant.
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