{"product_id":"chang-and-eng-darin-strauss-9780452281097","title":"Chang and Eng","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis stunning novel combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history's most famous conjoined twins. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Siam in 1811--on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River--Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world's stages as a circus act, they settled in the American South just prior to the Civil War. They eventually married two sisters from North Carolina, fathering twenty-one children between them, and lived for more than six decades never more than seven inches apart, attached at the chest by a small band of skin and cartilage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWoven from the fabric of fact, myth, and imagination, Strauss's narrative gives poignant, articulate voice to these legendary brothers, and humanizes the freakish legend that grew up around them. Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the King of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, \u003ci\u003e Chang and Eng \u003c\/i\u003erescues one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darin Strauss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0452281091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780452281097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e49818 \/ Chang and Eng: A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 1461\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/09\/2001 pg. 32","brand":"Darin Strauss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072616132863,"sku":"9780452281097","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6b20e3b-6a32-42c3-90d1-d785918593b1.jpg?v=1685443030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chang-and-eng-darin-strauss-9780452281097","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}