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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.

As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty novel is a gripping tale of scientific intrigue and moral uncertainty.

Mendel's Dwarf

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Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity.... Read more

    Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
    Publication Date: 07/07/2011
    ISBN13: 9780349000053, 978-0349000053
    ISBN10: 0349000050

    Number of Pages: 320

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    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.

    As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty novel is a gripping tale of scientific intrigue and moral uncertainty.

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