| Author: | Bill Roorbach | ISBN: | 9781616203351 |
| Publisher: | Algonquin Books | Publication: | August 20, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bill Roorbach |
| ISBN: | 9781616203351 |
| Publisher: | Algonquin Books |
| Publication: | August 20, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012
*Shelf Awareness *Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012
Columbus Dispatch’s Top Books of 2012
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.
Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012
*Shelf Awareness *Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012
Columbus Dispatch’s Top Books of 2012
