God's fool

Mark Slouka

first published 2002 Vintage, 2003 paperback 288 pages

"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 achievement in God's Fool is the ease and compassion with which he draws the story of one huma...

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Editions we hold

God's Fool edition · 2017 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 288 pages · 9780393352641
God's Fool edition · 2017 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 288 pages · 9780393352658
God's Fool edition · 2012 · Pan Macmillan · 240 pages · 9781447218982
God's Fool paperback · 2003 · Vintage · 288 pages · 9780375702099
God's fool edition · 2003 · Picador · 271 pages
God's fool edition · 2002 · Knopf · 271 pages
God's Fool edition · 2002 · Macmillan Publishers Limited · 240 pages · 9781405000338

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