Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach
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.
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Bill Roorbach is the author of the O.Henry Award-winning story collection Big Bend, as well as the novels The Smallest Color and Life Among Giants, both of which are now being developed for an HBO series. Summers with Juliet was his memoir, while Into Woods was his essay collection. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's Monthly, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He resides in Farmington, Maine, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781616203245 |
| ISBN 10 | 1616203242 |
| Title | Life Among Giants |
| Author | Bill Roorbach |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Algonquin Books |
| Year published | 2013-08-20 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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