What Is the What

2006 novel by Dave Eggers
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What Is the What

Summary

What Is the What is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is the What authored Dave Eggers[3].
  • What Is the What's image is recorded as Valentino Deng & Dave Eggers in San Mateo 10-1-08 1.JPG[4].
  • What Is the What's instance of is recorded as written work[5].
  • What Is the What's publisher is recorded as McSweeney's[6].
  • What Is the What's genre is recorded as memoir[7].
  • What Is the What's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • What Is the What's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • What Is the What's publication date is recorded as +2006-10-25T00:00:00Z[10].
  • What Is the What's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027cdhk[11].
  • What Is the What's Open Library ID is recorded as OL114663W[12].
  • What Is the What's cover art by is recorded as Rachell Sumpter[13].
  • What Is the What's has edition or translation is recorded as Q126544415[14].
  • What Is the What's has edition or translation is recorded as Q126696939[15].
  • What Is the What's has edition or translation is recorded as What Is the What[16].
  • What Is the What's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 1660444[17].
  • What Is the What's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Is the What'}[18].
  • What Is the What's OCLC work ID is recorded as 197524088[19].
  • What Is the What's form of creative work is recorded as novel[20].
  • What Is the What's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 3271214[21].
  • What Is the What's Penguin Random House work ID is recorded as 45422[22].

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Designation and Status

What Is the What's instance of is recorded as written work[5].

Why It Matters

What Is the What ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[2] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . openlibrary.org. Retrieved . openlibrary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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