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Combining the eccentricity of the circus world and the heart of the love story, The Thunder of Giants is a warm and engaging debut about two exceptional women - both almost eight foot tall. The entire year is 1937, and Andorra Kelsey - 7'11" and just under 320 pounds - is on her behalf way to Hollywood to become star. Hoping to escape both poverty and the ghost of her lifeless husband, she allows an offer from the wily Rutherford Simone to star in a movie about the life of Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess who toured the planet in the 19th hundred years. Thus Anna Swan's story unfurls. Where Andorra is seen as a disgrace by an humiliated family, Anna Swan is quickly celebrated on her behalf unique size. Drawn to NY, Anna becomes a famed fascination at P. T. Barnum's North american Museum even while she falls in love with Gavin Clarke, a veteran of the Civil Conflict. Quickly disenchanted with a life of popularity, Anna challenges to prove to Gavin - and the planet - that she is more than the total of her measurements. The Thunder of Giants blends truth and fiction in a sweeping narrative that spans almost a hundred years. Against the backdrop of epic happenings, two amazing women become unwilling stars in the expectations of surviving a global too small to contain them.
