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God's Fool

God's Fool( )
Author: Slouka, Mark
ISBN:978-0-375-40216-6
Publication Date:May 2002
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Knopf
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $47.95
Book Description:

Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an omen, an act of God, evidence of His glory or proof of His wrath. Uniquely cursed, enslaved to one another for life, they were a joke of nature variously feared and abhorred, disturbing our most basic assumptions about the human condition. Mark Slouka’s dazzling achievement in God’s Fool is the ease and compassion with which he draws the story of one human being from this ghastly predicament. Looking...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Family Life / Siblings
Fiction / Historical / Civil War Era
Fiction / Southern
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.637 x 24.206 x 2.946 cm
Book Weight:0.598 Kilograms
Author Biography
Slouka, Mark (Author)
Mark Slouka is a graduate of Columbia University and he has taught at Harvard and the University of California at San Diego. He currently teaches at Columbia and lives in New York City with his wife and children.




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