Description
Product ID: | 9780349000053 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Mendel's Dwarf |
Authors: | Author: Simon Mawer |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating * Reissue of Simon Mawer's briliant third novel MENDEL'S DWARF Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But for Benedict the mission is particularly urgent and personal, for his is afflicted by achondroplasia. He is a dwarf. When a chance meeting leads him to the acceptance that he craves, he begins a journey towards correcting the injustice of his own capricious genes, with devastating consequences. |
Imprint Name: | Abacus |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-07-07 |