The elephant man
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Christine Sparks
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780345291363; 9780345345134
Subjects: Abnormalities, human; Fiction
Description: John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in a workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within the enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, and the longings of a man.