Bill Roorbach

Coming August 2012 from Algonquin!

The story begins in 1970, when disaster befalls David Hochmeyer, aka Lizard, a high school football star. Across the pond in a mansion the size of a museum lives the world's greatest ballerina, whose own disasters intersect David's in the most intimate ways.

"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." --Clyde Edgerton

"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

"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." Ann Hood

"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