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Chang and Eng

Chang and Eng

Chang and Eng
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Chang and Eng

by Strauss, Darin

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ISBN 10
0749004878
ISBN 13
9780749004873
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Allison & Busby, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Synopsis

In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history’s most famous twins. Born in Siam in 1811—on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River—Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world’s stages as a circus act, they settled in the American South just prior to the Civil War. They eventually married two sisters from North Carolina, fathering twenty-one children between them, and lived for more than six decades never more than seven inches apart, attached at the chest by a small band of skin and cartilage. Woven from the fabric of fact, myth, and imagination, Strauss’s narrative gives poignant, articulate voice to these legendary brothers, and humanizes the freakish legend that grew up around them. Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the King of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, Chang and Eng rescues one of the nineteenth century’s most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Chang and Eng
Author
Strauss, Darin
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0749004878
ISBN 13
9780749004873
Publisher
Allison & Busby, Limited
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2000

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