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Life Among Giants
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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ISBN10: 1616203242
ISBN13: 9781616203245
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Aug 20 2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781616203245
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Aug 20 2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
Consistently surprising and truly entertaining ... Part thriller, part family drama, Life Among Giants is deliciously strange and deeply affecting. -The Boston Globe This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David Lizard Hochmeyer's larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents' deaths. It's a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who's as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge -- rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting -- Life Among Giants is an exhilarating adventure. Hilarious and heartbreaking, wild and wise, Bill Roorbach's Life Among Giants, which is earning comparisons to The World According to Garp, is a vivid chronicle of a life lived large. -Parade A larger-than-life production. Yet all of its wild characters feel genuine, their aches and flaws and desires wholly organic; and the plot they're tangled in moves forward at a breakneck pace. It's a dizzy romp ... Which isn't to say there isn't real meat here. Roorbach doesn't let the novel's rich entertainment stand in the way of emotional subtlety. -The New York Times Book Review A bighearted, big-boned story ... Life Among Giants reads like something written by a kinder, gentler John Irving ... Roorbach is a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth, graceful style. -The Washington Post A bravura performance. -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Bill Roorbach is a writer with enormous vision and an even more enormous heart. -Ann Hood, author of The Red Thread
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