| Without a Hero Contributor(s): Boyle, T. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140178392 ISBN-13: 9780140178395 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.24" W x 7.76" (0.47 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |