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19 reviews
Darin Strauss

Dutton Adult, 2008

What a writer...
Darin Strauss is a unique voice in contemporary fiction. As a writer, I had to resist highlighting every brilliant metaphor and passage in this gorgeous book, lest my book be covered in pen. Like his two previous novels, "Chang and Eng" and "The Real McCoy," "More Than It Hurts You" is a real page-turner, a book you won't want to put down. The portraits Strauss paints of new parenthood, marriage, ...

Chang & Eng

1 review
Darin Strauss, 2000

GETTING TO KNOW YOU...
This is an ambitious and intriguing debut novel, which is based upon conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, who were born in Siam during the nineteenth century. It is through them that the term "Siamese Twins" entered the vernacular. Here, the author takes known facts about these famous twins and weaves an expertly woven story about their lives, while attempting to individualize them, giving each of ...

The Real McCoy

14 reviews
Darin Strauss

Plume, 2003

What a find!
This is a great book. Ignore the reviewer from Alabama who found it "Difficult to read" It's understood that anything more than 1 syllable is challenging there.

Chang and Eng

61 reviews
Darin Strauss

Allison & Busby, 2001

Stranger Than Fiction!
Darin Strauss has elegantly polevaulted over the difficult hurdle of writing a novel based on historic fact while keeping his story refined and tight enough that the novel stands on its own merits, as though the "fiction" is beautifully embellished by "fact". Not only does he make the history of the famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng read like a flawlessly constructed novel, he has obviously ...

More Than it Hurts You on 12 unabridged CDs in hard, vinyl box
Darin Strauss

Books on Taple, 2008

The story of a doctor who comes fact to face with a mother who she suspects of having Munchausen by Proxy, where a mother repeatedly harms her baby. Riveting.

Chang and Eng
Darin Strauss

QPB Collectible Edition, 1999

Trade paperback, QPB Collectible Edition with printed note from author on front endpaper.

Real McCoy
Darin Strauss

Penguin Group (USA), 2002

Loosely based on the real life of a turn-of-the-century icon and charlatan, The Real McCoy introduces a character like no other in recent contemporary fiction. "Kid" McCoy was a man of many talents and faces: championship boxer, jewel thief, scam artist, and one of the most married men in America. Unfolding against the tumultuous backdrop of history, his story becomes a fascinating mirror of the times as he becomes a legend and a symbol of all ...

Chang und Eng. Die siamesischen Zwillinge.

1 review
Darin Strauss

Heyne, 2002

JUST WE TWO...
This is the German text edition of an ambitious and intriguing debut novel, "Chang and Eng", which is based upon conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, who were born in Siam during the nineteenth century. It is through them that the term "Siamese Twins" entered the vernacular. Here, the author takes known facts about these famous twins and weaves an expertly woven story about their lives, while ...

CHANG AND ENG A NOVEL BY DARIN STRAUSS
DARIN STRAUSS

Dutton Adult (June 1, 2000), 2000

Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty. Taken from Thailand as adolescents, Chang and Eng toured the world's stages, quickly finding celebrity status while performing in ...

Chan et Eng : Le Double-garçon

1 review
Darin Strauss, Aline Azoulay

Seuil, 2002

THE DOUBLE BOY...
This is the French text edition of "Chang and Eng", an ambitious and intriguing debut novel, which is based upon conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, who were born in Siam during the nineteenth century. It is through them that the term "Siamese Twins" entered the vernacular. Here, the author takes known facts about these famous twins and weaves an expertly woven story about their lives, while ...

Le Vrai McCoy
Darin Strauss

Seuil, 2003

Mr. Beluncle: A Novel (Modern Library Classics)

1 review
V.S. Pritchett

Modern Library, 2005

A comic answer to the question, Who shall inherit England?
V.S. Pritchett's Mr. Beluncle is a pater familias running emotional roughshod on his employees and his household alike in their London suburb. His three stifled sons invariably cry after speaking to him, and his wife fumes at his stubbornness and the hint he may be carrying on an affair with his partner in the Bulux furniture firm, Mrs. Truslove. We might be in Ivy Compton-Burnett territory, but ...

Chang and Eng

1 review
Darin Strauss

Dutton, 2000

A Competent Attempt
Given the celebrity this remarkable sibling pair enjoyed in the 19th century, it's amazing that no one had previously written a novel based on their lives. Perhaps this is because, most notably, in this case, truth is far stranger than fiction. Be that as it may, Strauss has managed to write a compelling novel built around the tragic life of the "original" Siamese twins who married American ...

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