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Without a Hero: Stories
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Without a Hero: Stories Paperback - 1995

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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In his fourth collection of short stories, Boyle, showing fierce, comic wit and uncanny accuracy, zooms in on an astonishingly wide range of Americans, from the college football player who knows only defeat to the couple in search of the last toads on Earth to a real estate tycoon who takes his family on safari--in Bakerfield, California.

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Penguin Books, 1995-05-01. paperback. Very Good. Ships within 24 hours!Softcover, tight pages, clean text, general shelf wear, corner/edge wear, scuffing, some creasing.
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  • Title Without a Hero: Stories
  • Author T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-05-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 240509049
  • ISBN 9780140178395 / 0140178392
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.24 x 0.59 in (19.71 x 13.31 x 1.50 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena such as a center for the treatment of acquisitive disorders; a couple in search of the last toads on earth; and a real estate wonder boy on a dude safari near convenient Bakerfield, California.

Sharp, guileful, and malevolently funny, Boyle's stories are "more than funny, better than wicked," says The Philadelphia Inquirer. "They make you cringe with their clarity."

From the publisher

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

First line

YOU COULD SHOOT ANYTHING you wanted, for a price, even the elephant, but Bernard tended to discourage the practice.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 04/03/1995, Page 0

About the author

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

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