{"product_id":"life-among-giants-9781616203351","title":"Life Among Giants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Consistently surprising and truly entertaining ... Part thriller, part family drama, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife Among Giants \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis deliciously strange and deeply affecting.” -T\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 — \u003ci\u003eLife Among Giants\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhilarating adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilarious and heartbreaking, wild and wise, Bill Roorbach’s \u003ci\u003eLife Among Giants\u003c\/i\u003e, which is earning comparisons to \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e, is a vivid chronicle of a life lived large.” -\u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A larger-than-life production. Yet all of its wild characters feel genuine, their aches and flaws and desires wholly organic; and the plot they’re tangled in moves forward at a breakneck pace. It’s a dizzy romp ... Which isn’t to say there isn’t real meat here. Roorbach doesn’t let the novel’s rich entertainment stand in the way of emotional subtlety.” -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A bighearted, big-boned story ... \u003ci\u003eLife Among Giants\u003c\/i\u003e reads like something written by a kinder, gentler John Irving ... Roorbach is a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth, graceful style.” -\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A bravura performance.” -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bill Roorbach is a writer with enormous vision and an even more enormous heart.” -Ann Hood, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Thread\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67893373173938,"sku":"9781616203351","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/life-among-giants-9781616203351","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}