Chang and Eng
by Strauss, Darin
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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Allison & Busby. Good. 215mm / 138mm. Paperback. 2000. 348 pages. Cover worn<br>Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twin s, were born on the Mekong River in Siam in the 19th century. In this interpretation of their story, Eng looks back on their life in the hours after his brother's death. Joined at the chest, the brothers… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York City, NY: Dutton, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Dutton, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 336 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Published to enormous critical acclaim, it remains Darin Strauss' finest achievement. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525945121 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Chang and Eng are a young couple who are trying to figure out their relationship. They are both from different cultures and are learning about each other. They are… Read more about this item Item Price
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Allison & Busby, 2000-10-24. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Joyce Carol Oates recommended it as one her favorite reads. As historical fiction, the author paints a compassionate and compelling picture of what the lives of Chang and Eng were probably like. It is a humanistic portrayal of what was no doubt a difficult life for the twins Posted within… Read more about this item Item Price
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