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Author : Mark Slouka
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-10-24
God S Fool A Novel written by Mark Slouka and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Fiction categories.
"If you can read [God’s Fool] without being astonished and touched, then you’d better check to see if your heart is made of stone…simply brilliant. A book of the year." —Dallas Morning News Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an act of God. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Mark Slouka recounts their tumultuous story, from the docks of Vietnam to American fame, with intimacy and compassion. A Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Dallas Morning News Best Book of the Year.
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Author : Mark Slouka
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-04-13
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Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an omen, an act of God, evidence of His glory or proof of His wrath. Uniquely cursed, enslaved to one another for life, they were a joke of nature variously feared and abhorred, disturbing our most basic assumptions about the human condition. Mark Slouka’s dazzling achievement in God’s Fool is the ease and compassion with which he draws the story of one human being from this ghastly predicament. Looking beyond the twins’ physical connection, he imagines one man’s life of ordinary grace and suffering, longing and resistance, and the ties of love, as well as of blood, that bind and redeem us all. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Their birth, to an illiterate fishmonger, sent midwives screaming from the room. Condemned to death, they survived to be brought, at the age of thirteen, to the Royal Palace in Bangkok for an audience with King Rama III. At seventeen, laboring as merchants on the Meklong River, they saw their world erased by a typhoon. Consigned for three hundred pounds to an opium trader by their mother, who was desperate to ensure their survival, they sailed for Europe. There they entertained kings and counselors in salons and drawing rooms from Brussels to Rome, and, in Paris, met the woman who would divide them as no surgeon ever could. When the culture that had lifted them up inevitably cast them down, they landed in the flophouses of London, where, penniless and starving, they were discovered by Phineas T. Barnum, who packed them off to America along with an assortment of bearded ladies and two-headed calves, albino beauties and dog boys, German midgets and twelve-fingered flute players. Leaving Barnum at the height of their fame to take a last stab at normal life, they settled in North Carolina, where, despite the tensions growing between them, they found, for a time, tranquillity as farmers and slave owners, marrying a pair of sisters and fathering, between them, twenty children. Their peace, however, would prove to be short-lived. As the Civil War drew closer, and their world began to tilt, they would first turn against each other and then, faced with a trial unlike any they had ever known, draw together once more. No longer young, they set off to find the war, and to save what could be saved. It would be there, on that very real battlefield, that Chang would enact his final, terrifying battle with fate. Sweeping and intimate, vibrant and austere, God’s Fool is a novel of soaring ambition and accomplishment from a fiercely gifted storyteller.
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Author : MAARTEN. MAARTENS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Author : Maarten Maartens
language : en
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Release Date : 1874
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Author : Maarten Maartens
language : en
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Release Date : 1892
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Author : Joost Marius Willem van der Poorten-Schwartz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Author : Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz
language : en
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Release Date : 1897
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Author : Maarten Maartens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
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Author : Julien Green
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1985
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Attempts to portray the complex personality of Saint Francis, looks at his early life and influences, and discusses the rules he developed for the Franciscan order of monks.
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Author : Maarten Maartens
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-16
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Excerpt from God's Fool: A Koopstad Story So, so, said Chris cheerily. One good thing, it keeps dry. Yes, it keeps dry, answered the baker's boy. That's one good thing. Good-night. And he sank out of sight into the mist, his Whistle alone lingering a few seconds longer. Another quarter of an hour crept by. The darkness grew denser. And presently the clock of the big church tower - away down in the town - boomed forth the hour of eight. Its echoes crept along the dreary silence, and lay faint upon the air. The chimes Which must have prefaced those final strokes had got lost in the mazes of the mist. Just before the striking of the hour the front-door had suddenly Opened, and a man had come running out, and away into the fog. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.