A Hole in Texas Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wouk, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316010855 ISBN-13: 9780316010856 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: The first novel by Wouk in ten years is a light, sprightly story about lost love, high-energy physics and the machinations of Washington. At 60, physicist Guy Carpenter is thrust back into the spotlight when the Chinese make a startling announcement. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Biographical |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.56" W x 8.4" (0.56 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide. |