Eggers As Metaphor
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The Museum of Rain, the short new book from Dave Eggers, will appeal to sophisticated readers as well as those with short attention spans, and that is no slur. It is a parable whose simplicity may leave some thinking this can’t possibly be by the same author as the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and a number of precious, experimental novels, short story collections, screenplays, and nonfiction works. Some might call The Museum of Rain a novella, but at 8,000 words, crammed into 44 pages in a 5 x 7 trim size, it is really a story made available in book form.
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