Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”—Boston Globe Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride, and stop a...
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“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”—Boston Globe Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride, and stop a hit-man from killing their uncle. An O. Henry Prize winner, a two-time recipient of PEN Fiction Awards, and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, Rose has written “a surprisingly fun, and moving, book with resonance” (Chicago Tribune).
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061708701 (0061708704)
Publish date: May 12th 2009
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
In this amusing, fascinating and aggravating memoir, Daniel Rose tells, in highly comedic tones, of his adventure in China attempting to find a kidney for his dying cousin. Frankly, Larry is so annoying that I was tempted to put the book down, a rare event indeed. But I hung in and I am glad that I ...
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