Life Among Giants
- SKU: 9781616203245
- Category: Snag Books Bestselling Titles
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
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bill Roorbach
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 08/20/2013
ISBN: 9781616203245
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.58w x 0.98d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 09/29/2013 pg. 30
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
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bill Roorbach
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 08/20/2013
ISBN: 9781616203245
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.58w x 0.98d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 09/29/2013 pg. 30