Title: The mirror of monsters and prodigies : a novel /
Authors: Ditchoff, Pamela, 1950-
Publisher: Coffee House Press ; Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [distributor],
Year: 1995
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human Fiction.
Abstract: A book on the malformed, from ancient to modern. Dwarfs, hunchbacks, bearded women, dog-faced children, real people who held center stage, even as they were barred from normal life. With medicine working to eradicate abnormalities, a vanishing culture, portrayed at once as fierce and tender.