Life Among Giants

A Novel

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Pub Date 13 Nov 2012 | Archive Date 29 Nov 2012

Description

This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who’s as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge--rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting--Life Among Giants is an exhilarating adventure.

Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012 


Shelf Awareness 
Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012 


Columbus Dispatch
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This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s...


Advance Praise

"Life Among Giants is a wild ride of a novel, deliciously visceral, psychologically twisted, furiously engaging. Lizard Hochmeyer is a little like my Irish Wolfhound . . . too darn big not to get himself into trouble, but it is the accumulative and self inflicted quality of that trouble, its layers and its range, as well as Lizard's dogged attempts to come to terms with it, that make him a hero I will never forget. Roorbach gives us such perfect and particular access to Lizard, and by extension to the world of superlatives he inhabits—reading it taught me something I didn't know about the way the world works, about how men and women work, and it is a good day for everybody when that story gets made new again."—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

"A book that's big in the best of ways, Life Among Giants strolls effortlessly across several recent American decades, guiding a big-eyed reader through worlds of football, ballet, murder, fine food, investment fraud, gaudy wealth, murder again, international intrigue, and suspense, all the while staying within the tight limits of a family saga that rings universal. Bill Roorbach has delivered his award-winning writing talents in one big bunch. Hollywood will come calling."—Clyde Edgerton

“Life Among Giants is such a surprise: an operatic novel of grand emotions and grand events, a story about murder, money and madness but also the worlds of dance, food, sports, and romance, all experienced at their over-the-top best. So skip tonight’s movie, dinner, and ho-hum sunset, and sit back and enjoy. No one writes pleasure quite like Bill Roorbach.”—Debra Spark, author of Good for the Jews

“Life Among Giants is a sprawling, exuberant novel filled with murder and lust and, mostly, love. Bill Roorbach is a writer with enormous vision and an even more enormous heart.”—Anne Hood, author of The Red Thread

"Life Among Giants is a wild ride of a novel, deliciously visceral, psychologically twisted, furiously engaging. Lizard Hochmeyer is a little like my Irish Wolfhound . . . too darn big not to get...


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ISBN 9781616200763
PRICE $24.95 (USD)
PAGES 356

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