| Chang and Eng Contributor(s): Strauss, Darin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452281091 ISBN-13: 9780452281097 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: Now in paperback comes the brilliant reimagining of the remarkable lives of the original "Siamese Twins". 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 19th century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Asian American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 990059198 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.31" W x 8" (0.78 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 49818 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This stunning novel combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous conjoined 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. |