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Without a Hero: Stories Paperback - 1995
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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- Good
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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- Title Without a Hero: Stories
- Author T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Uncorrected Proof
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date May 1, 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140178392-11-1
- 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
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YOU COULD SHOOT ANYTHING you wanted, for a price, even the elephant, but Bernard tended to discourage the practice.
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 04/03/1995, Page 0