God's fool
By: Mark Slouka.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874 -- Fiction.; Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874 -- Fiction.; Rural families -- Fiction.; Married people -- Fiction.; Conjoined twins -- Fiction.; Freak shows -- Fiction.; Farm life -- Fiction.; Brothers -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.