The boys from Siam
"Based loosely on the lives of the nineteenth-century brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (the original "Siamese twins"), The Boys From Siam is the haunting and lyrical story of the conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. In his foreword, Edward Albee writes that the work is "a beautifully realized concentrated universe. It takes big chances along the way ... and makes us care - really care.""--Jacket.
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- Full title :The boys from Siam / John Austin Connolly ; foreword by Edward Albee.
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"Based loosely on the lives of the nineteenth-century brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (the original "Siamese twins"), The Boys From Siam is the haunting and lyrical story of the conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. In his foreword, Edward Albee writes that the work is "a beautifully realized concentrated universe. It takes big chances along the way ... and makes us care - really care.""--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxii, 119 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300141849, 030014184X, 9780300141856, 0300141858
- oclc:ocn216936089
- LC Classification:PR6103.O555
- Dewey Decimal:822/.92
Table of Contents
Machine derived contents note: <new recto> -- <set drop folio> -- Contents -- Foreword: Judgment Day by Edward Albee -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Boys from Siam.
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