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	Penguin Reading Guides Chang and Eng Darin Strauss
		Darin Strauss is a young writer of uncommon grit with the even more uncommon imagination of an artist bold enough to embrace history and to wring from it a tale as beguiling and engaging as the celebrated twins themselves.
		Darin Strauss's powerful and affecting first novel makes the distant and unthinkably strange lives of the original ‘Siamese twins' seem intimately and movingly familiar.
		Darin Strauss immerses us in the turbulent lives of the historic Siamese twins Chang and Eng with consummate skill, intelligence, and sympathy.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/chang_and_eng.html (1926 words)

	TWINSTUFF.COM--Chang and Eng: A Novel
		Author Darin Strauss has taken on the formidable challenge of putting words into the mouth of one of the most famous conjoined twins in history and the result is the impressive, new novel Chang and Eng: a Novel' (Dutton, June, 2000).
		Strauss tells us that he was able to interview several sets of twins as well as surviving members of the Bunker Family (he'll be attending a Bunker Family Reunion later this summer) in researching his novel, but unfortunately wasn't able to interview any conjoined twins.
		If Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, were alive today, they would have their own syndicated talk show.
	www.twinstuff.com /changeng.htm (716 words)

	STRAUSS TAKES FEATURE, WINS MODIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP - RacingWest
		A_Main _ Bob Strauss, Aaron Hicks, Brian Gard, Darin Snider, Michael Smithhart, Derek Thorn, Danny Bishop, Ron Conner, Rod Harper, Wade Wittman, David Furia, Jerold Christensen, Terry McIntire.
		Heat 2_ Brian Gard, Darin Snider, Bob Strauss, Derek Thorn, Aaron Hicks, Michael Smithhart, Terry McIntire.
		Strauss then drove around Conner for second and took the lead away from Wittman on lap 14.
	www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/7637 (716 words)

	Lux Lotus: As Smart As They Are's NYC Premiere
		Featuring: One Ring Zero, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Jonathan Ames, Myla Goldberg, Darin Strauss, Clay McLeod Chapman, Amy Fusselman and Lawrence Krauser.
		Through capturing live performances, studio sessions and interviews with the writers and musicians, As Smart As They Are explores the relationships between music and literature while painting a portrait of the New York literary community that fostered the band.
		With Camp on accordion and Hearst on claviola, the duo soon began performing as the house-band for the series and ultimately invited a handful of authors to contribute lyrics.
	www.luxlotus.com /lux_lotus/2005/08/as_smart_as_the.html (716 words)

	TWINSTUFF.COM--Chang and Eng: A Novel
		Author Darin Strauss has taken on the formidable challenge of putting words into the mouth of one of the most famous conjoined twins in history and the result is the impressive, new novel Chang and Eng: a Novel' (Dutton, June, 2000).
		If Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, were alive today, they would have their own syndicated talk show.
		But, alas, the remarkable Bunker Twins, lived in Siam (now Thailand) and in their North Carolina homes from 1811-74 and despite several publications that came out during their lives and some biographies that appeared later (most prominently, The Two, by Irving and Amy Wallace in 1978), not much is known about Chang and Eng.
	www.twinstuff.com /changeng.htm (716 words)

	Salon.com Books "Chang and Eng" by Darin Strauss
		Nonetheless, for all the imaginative daring of exhuming Chang and Eng for their fictional utility, Strauss penetrates so deep that at times the novel feels vaguely exploitative -- most notably when Eng enters into a scalding affair with his twin's bride.
		Chang and Eng Bunker, the famously conjoined brothers for whom the term "Siamese twins" was coined, were born in 1811 in a tiny fishing village near Bangkok.
		With the aid of his partner, Abel Coffin, a sea captain and royal crony, Hunter convinced Chang and Eng, their mother and Rama III that showing the twins abroad would be educational, profitable and patriotic, respectively.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/05/22/strauss/print.html (716 words)

	Chang and Eng - Darin Strauss - Penguin Group (USA)
		Woven from the fabric of fact, myth, and imagination, Strauss’s narrative gives poignant, articulate voice to these legendary brothers, and humanizes the freakish legend that grew up around them.
		Born in Siam in 1811—on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River—Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty.
		Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the King of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, Chang and Eng rescues one of the nineteenth century’s most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty.
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0452281091,00.html?sym=REV (716 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides Chang and Eng Darin Strauss
		U.S. This much is known: Conjoined twins attached at the chest, Chang and Eng Bunker were born in poverty in Siam, were taken abroad and displayed as a human curiosity by an unscrupulous promoter, and with the help of P.T. Barnum, gained control of their professional lives as entertainers.
		A story of union in the face of adversity, it follows the extraordinary lives of the twins from poverty to wealth, from hopeless solitude to boundless love, from the court of the King of Siam to the crowded bedroom of their North Carolina home.
		The product of three years of intensive research, Chang and Eng is the story of the two told by Eng on his deathbed as he remembers his life, his conjoined twin lifeless beside him.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/chang_and_eng.html (716 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: God's Fool
		Siamese twins Chang and Eng, who caused a sensation 160 years ago, when they were exhibited by P.T. Barnum, still hold a mysterious fascination Slouka's version of their story is the second novel dedicated to their vicissitudes in the last two years (the other being Darin Strauss's Chang and Eng).
		While Eng approves of Chang's marital relations with his wife, Addy, both brothers remember Chang's first affair: it was in Paris, their first season in Europe, with Sophia Marchant, a famous beauty.
		The descriptions of the Mekong Valley, the surreal world of Siam, and the familial love between Chang and Eng and their parents, wives and children were superbly drawn.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375402160 (716 words)

	Buy.com - Chang and Eng : Darin Strauss : ISBN 0452281091
		Nonetheless, for all the imaginative daring of exhuming Chang and Eng for their fictional utility, Strauss penetrates so deep that at times the novel feels vaguely exploitative....[A]nother testament to Strauss' craftsmanship: The sad affection his Chang and Eng inspire can cause you to fret unduly over their long-dead templates.
		Eng dreams of separation as opposed to his more stolid brother, who is a happy hard-drinking extrovert.
		Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the king of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, "Chang and Eng" rescues one of the 19th century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history.
	www.buy.com /prod/Chang_and_Eng/q/loc/106/30720666.html (552 words)

	Salon.com Books "Chang and Eng" by Darin Strauss
		Nonetheless, for all the imaginative daring of exhuming Chang and Eng for their fictional utility, Strauss penetrates so deep that at times the novel feels vaguely exploitative -- most notably when Eng enters into a scalding affair with his twin's bride.
		Chang and Eng Bunker, the famously conjoined brothers for whom the term "Siamese twins" was coined, were born in 1811 in a tiny fishing village near Bangkok.
		With the aid of his partner, Abel Coffin, a sea captain and royal crony, Hunter convinced Chang and Eng, their mother and Rama III that showing the twins abroad would be educational, profitable and patriotic, respectively.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/05/22/strauss (838 words)

	TWINSTUFF.COM--Chang and Eng: A Novel
		Author Darin Strauss has taken on the formidable challenge of putting words into the mouth of one of the most famous conjoined twins in history and the result is the impressive, new novel Chang and Eng: a Novel' (Dutton, June, 2000).
		But, alas, the remarkable Bunker Twins, lived in Siam (now Thailand) and in their North Carolina homes from 1811-74 and despite several publications that came out during their lives and some biographies that appeared later (most prominently, The Two, by Irving and Amy Wallace in 1978), not much is known about Chang and Eng.
		If Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, were alive today, they would have their own syndicated talk show.
	www.twinstuff.com /changeng.htm (716 words)

	Amazon.com: Chang and Eng: Books: Darin Strauss
		Chang may never have learned how to use the verb to be, but his slyly clever jokes and warm smile made him the more popular of the twins, and seemingly the most contented with his lot.
		Chang drank, and Eng was a spokesman for the Temperance Union.
		Chang is outgoing and garrulous, drinks heavily (which angers Eng, who must also experience the effects of Chang's indulgence) and cannot see himself as less than two.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452281091?v=glance (2619 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Chang and Eng at Epinions.com
		In telling the fictionalized life story of the famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, author, Darin Strauss risked sliding down the slippery slope from the heights of literature to the gutter of the freak show.
		Chang and Eng Bunker lived most of their lives in the spotlight.
		First of all, keep in mind that although this book is written about Chang and Eng (the famous conjoined twins that gave it the name "Siamese" twins), it is completely fictional.
	www.epinions.com /Chang_and_Eng_by_Darin_Strauss/display_~reviews (494 words)

	Amazon.fr : Chang and Eng: A Novel: Livres en anglais
		Like the (literally) inseparable protagonists of Darin Strauss's debut, Chang and Eng Bunker were born in the early 1800s in a rainy village on the shores of the Mekong Delta.
		Narrated by Eng, one of a pair of conjoined twins, Chang and Eng is a daring novel that constantly threatens to lose its balance.
		This fictionalized version of their story is narrated by the stronger, more circumspect twin, Eng, who must continually urge Chang to restrain his tears, his burning sexual desires, and his fear of the King of Siam (who has promised to "kill the double-child, the bad omen").
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0452281091 (820 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
		The Real McCoy is an audacious and unforgettable novel about identity, illusion, and the pursuit of life long love.
		Unfolding against the tumultuous backdrop of history, his story is a fascinating mirror of the times as he becomes a legend and a symbol of all that's true in America.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/real_mccoy1.asp (772 words)

	Review The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
		If The Real McCoy isn't as memorable as Strauss' debut, Chang and Eng, it's simply that Strauss seems to be holding the plot in check, keeping it from the wild, unrestrained carnival side-show tale it longs to be.
		Very loosely based on the life of early-1900s boxing champ Charles McCoy, Strauss' novel invents a character who is himself an invention -- a reinvention, that is -- of a boxer named McCoy who is discovered by 16-year-old Virgil Selby in his dying moments after a brutal fistfight in Selby's small Indiana town.
		With a few minor faults, The Real McCoy might not be the brightest star of this literary season, but it does twinkle and glitter and dazzle with a writer's love for the written word.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/realmccoy.html (1116 words)

	Vorrede zu Gespräche von Ulrich Hutten (1860) / von David Friedrich Strauss
		Darin spiegelt sich auch Huttens Entwicklung vom engagierten Humanistenpoeten zum politischen Autor wider.
		Hutten kam 1499 in das Stift zu Fulda, um geistliche Erziehung zu genießen, verließ 1505 heimlich das Kloster und studierte in Köln bei Johann Rhagius, dann in Erfurt bei Eoban Hesse und Maternus Pistoris Latein und Griechisch.
		Von dort gingen aus Johannes Murmellius, Rektor in Münster (1480-1517), Ludwig Dringenberg in Schlettstadt (dort Rektor 1441-77, gest.
	www.payer.de /religionskritik/strauss02.htm (15496 words)

	Basteln, Tüfteln, Improvisieren .... La Dialectique du Bricolage
		Der Vorteil des Tinkering liegt darin, dass es weniger kostet, weniger destabilisierend wirkt und schneller ist als jede kreative Zerstörung und Neuerfindung.
		Der Begriff der Bricolage geht auf Claude Levi-Strauss und dessen Konzept des " wilden Denkens " zurück.
		Welche Aufgaben haben Waldexperten in den nächsten 10 bis 20 Jahren zu bewältigen - welche Ausbildung ist dazu nötig.
	www.brainworker.ch /Wissen/bricolage.htm (15496 words)

	Press Information
		Danielewski, the finalists were: David Ebershoff (The Danish Girl), Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), Heidi Julavits (The Mineral Palace), Akhil Sharma (An Obedient Father), and Darin Strauss (Chang and Eng).
		Danielewski was selected from six finalists to receive the Young Lions Fiction Award.
		Danielewski, 35, currently lives in Los Angeles, and created House of Leaves, his first novel, over a 10-year period.
	www.nypl.org /press/ylwinner.cfm (686 words)

	identity theory interviews karl iagnemma
		Is there a trend here, Daniel Mason writes The Piano Tuner, David Liss, The Coffee Trader, Arthur Phillips creates a faux history in Prague, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy and Chang And Eng —is the historical narrative easier or harder?
		Writer and robotics engineer Karl Iagnemma was born and grew up in the Detroit, Michigan area and attended The University of Michigan and MIT.
		His stories have appeared in Zoetrope, Tin House, and The Paris Review, and he was included in the Best American Short Stories 2001.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum117.html (686 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters
		The album, featuring lyrics by Jonathan Ames, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, A.M. Holmes and Darin Strauss, among others, will be released in the spring by Bar/None Records, along with a book published simultaneously by Soft Skull Press.
		Daniel Handler, better known as the best-selling children's author Lemony Snicket, contributed one of the album's best songs, a kind of Elvis Costello-meets-klezmer hybrid called "Radio." With sharp wordplay of the sort one would expect from an author, the song is a fast-paced alt-rocker in a minor key, adorned with flourishes of clarinet.
		Musically, the album has one foot firmly in klezmer territory, with lots of wandering clarinets and trombones, and the other kicking around in indie rock record bins, knocking old musical clichés into surprising new shapes.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.10.10/arts3.album.html (722 words)

	2004 Summer Ultimate - Teams
		Angela Ahlquist, Mason Beard, William Burke, Nathan Christensen, Michael Coren, Jim Curry, Andrew Demma, Eric Logan, Jessica Manley, Diego Martinez, Katie Orlemanski, Andres Rivera, Sam Robertson, Anna Shcherbakova, Adam Silver, Jason Simpson, Ernie Strauss, Tyler Tarwater, Joel Wooten, Katherine Wooten
		Jeremy Arkenbout, Tina Chadwick, Eric Cruse, Val Garris, Zachary Gatch, Darin Heuermann, Grant Hood, Traci Hudson, Jenny Lee, Deborah Mau, Eric Mau, Dave Morgan, Will Moye, Matthew Pope, Dylan Reid, Melinda Renshaw, Andrew Seibert, Winston Shurtz, Jason Styron, Suneel Tummala, Luke Ulrich
		Jason Aughenbaugh, Heather Carter, Shanye Crawford, Christopher Gantner, Jay Hammond, John Hammond, Bryant Hosch, Martha Keltner, Tristan Lobaugh, Kim McKibans, Conor McNeil, Trey Mock, Alison Nair, David Nash, Chris O'Connell, Evan Ormsby, Michael Pryor, Ricky Tse, Robbie Williams, Daniel Yetsko
	hammer.afdc.com /activities/ultimate/summer04/teams.asp (722 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Science Darin Strauss reflects on what life is like for conjoined twins
		Reba, a sufferer of spina bifida, is four inches shorter than Lori, who wheels her sister around on a custom-made rolling stool.
		For example, the 41-year-old Lori and Reba Schappell, of Reading, Pennsylvania, say they would not trade their entwined lives for anything, though they, too, are attached at the skull.
		And yet there are conjoined twins who choose not to be separated, who find comfort in an intimacy more strict than most of us could imagine.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/news/story/0,12976,993947,00.html (924 words)

	MovieWeb Search Results: Larry Storch
		Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor, Nita Talbot, Larry Storch, Leo G. Carroll, James Westerfield, Robert Strauss, Ben Lessy
		Richard Dawson, Davy Jones, Larry Storch, Cary Elwes, Don Rickles, Eric Idle
		Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Blake Edwards, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin, Marvin Kaplan
	movieweb.com /movies/search.php?name=Larry+Storch (104 words)

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		Ich dreh den Ring--"haett' ich zur Frau Das liebste Herz aus Hennegau, Und haett' mein Hahn ein Huehnlein gut, Es wuerde eine edle Brut." Da hoert' im Wald ich ein Geschrei Und eilt' mit Ross und Knecht herbei, Und bei der Hennen-Linde draus, Da hatt' ich einen blut'gen Strauss.
		Sie hatte sich eine Bank darin bereitet, und neben dieser stand das Kraeutlein Unserlieb-Frauenbettstroh.
		Zu Fuessen des Hennen-Kreuzes trauerte in stummem Schmerz ein adeliger Fraeuleinverein von lauter Pflanzen und Kraeutern, welche der Graefin Hinkel von Hennegau namensverwandt und seit Olims Zeiten in diesem Schlosse einheimisch waren.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext03/7gckl10.txt (104 words)

	Review The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
		Very loosely based on the life of early-1900s boxing champ Charles McCoy, Strauss' novel invents a character who is himself an invention -- a reinvention, that is -- of a boxer named McCoy who is discovered by 16-year-old Virgil Selby in his dying moments after a brutal fistfight in Selby's small Indiana town.
		If The Real McCoy isn't as memorable as Strauss' debut, Chang and Eng, it's simply that Strauss seems to be holding the plot in check, keeping it from the wild, unrestrained carnival side-show tale it longs to be.
		It helps that the book's central character, Kid McCoy, is a larger-than-life figure who is built mostly of speech -- the flimflam, thank-you-ma'am patter of snake-oil salesmen, charlatans and folk heroes whose fame depended on rumor and tabloid headlines.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/realmccoy.html (104 words)

	The Real McCoy - Darin Strauss - Penguin Group (USA)
		McCoy had a wooer's slicked-up brown hair and the sweet temper of a lucky man. But even using that celebrated name the kid was slight, a cousin to the ribbed washboards women had in those days: not an ideal case for a guy intent on the welterweight crown.
		I recognized it as McCoy's self-possession getting the better of his giant enthusiasm, and I fell in love with the man for the thousandth, the ten thousandth time.
		Ryan, it's not really a fight, and it doesn't have to be free." McCoy bowed his head at her, as if at any time she might start treating him with respect.
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0452284414,00.html?sym=SYN (104 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE REAL McCOY by Darin Strauss
		It shows that Strauss, in regard to writing quality, entertaining novels, is the real McCoy in his own right.
		'Kid' McCoy (born Virgil Selby, but he keeps that under wraps, unless, of course, it helps in a scam) is a wiry fellow and one who knows how to fight (particularly since learning a corkscrew punch from flimflammer extraordinaire Johnnie Gold, a Chinese con man he met at a work camp out West).
		This time it's "Kid" McCoy, loosely based on a real man --- a boxer, a charlatan, a lover, a scam artist.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0452284414.asp (104 words)

	BOOKVIEWS: July 2002
		The Real McCoy ($24.95) by Darin Strauss serves up an audacious character based loosely on the real life of a turn-of-the-century icon and charlatan, "Kid" McCoy, championship boxer, jewel thief, scam artists, and a man who managed to be married to three women at the same time!
		All kinds of topics from general school smarts, to library use, and test taking are discussed so parents can become partners in their children’s educational success.
		This is a rollicking story that evokes a past era immortalized in the phrase that is the novel’s title.
	www.bookviews.com /archive/bookviews-july2002.htm (104 words)

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