Life Among Giants
by:
Bill Roorbach (author)
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...
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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
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616200763 (1616200766)
ASIN: 1616200766
Publish date: November 13th 2012
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages no: 331
Edition language: English
This one had everything, seriously: love, murder, intrigue, ballet,food, the NFL:can't say that about every book you read;)
3.5 stars, but I'll rate it 4 because he's a nice guy and a Mainer. Quirky characters in interesting situations, but the jumpy timeline was a little odd. While I was reading, I didn't want to put it down, but now that I've finished it, I'm not sure what to think. We'll see if I'm still thinking a...
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