Without a Hero

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 9780140178395
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Penguin Group USA

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This collection of 15 of T.C. Boyle`s incomparable short stories dates from the early 1990s. They include Carnal Knowledge, about a hapless animal rights group trying to liberate a turkey farm before Thanksgiving Day; Acts of God, in which Hurricane Leroy comes to the rescue of a henpecked husband; and the stunning Big Game, in which Boyle creates his own version of Hemingway`s famous The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.

Without a Hero ( ISBN 9780140178395 )

Abraxus Books

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price : 12 USD
A critic recently said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, "More happens in one of Boyle's stories than in most post-Victorian novels." This is precisely the case in Without a Hero, fifteen stunning stories that each, in its own way, displays a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America. In this, his fourth story collection, Boyle takes chance after chance, even to the point of reexamining the ethos of Ernest Hemingway, one of the masters of the form. In "Big Game," the wild animal safari takes place not in Africa but on a pay-per-shoot ranch in Southern California and includes an elephant hunt and its vivid consequences. There are echoes here of Hemingway's classic "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Green Hills of Africa, but Boyle's hunting story is drawn for the age of ecology rather than an age without limits. Throughout, Boyle displays an astonishing range as he zooms in on such American specimens as the college football player who knows only defeat; the entrepreneur who creates a center for acquisitive disorders; the couple in search of the last toads on earth; and the boy caught between the ingenuousness of childhood and the cynicism of adulthood in "The Fog Man." In some of these stories, Boyle makes you laugh out loud; in others you come closer to understanding the human condition because of the way he cuts to the secret places in his people's hearts. Here is the author of the highly praised 1993 novel, The Road to Wellville, entering a richer and deeper phase in his writing life, his stories bursting with what the Los Angeles Times has called his "ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.

Without a Hero ( ISBN 9780140178395 )

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Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
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Brand new, not a remainder, no marks. As published by Penguin Publishing Company: Riverhead Books Division. Paperback edition.256 pages. Book Size: Length: 7 inches, Width 5 Height inches 0.7 Inches. Book weight: 0.42 pounds. This book will require no additional postage. Orders processed on AbeBooks Monday - Friday and ships 6 days a week. Synopsis: This collection of 15 of T.C. Boyle`s incomparable short stories dates from the early 1990s. They include Carnal Knowledge, about a hapless animal rights group trying to liberate a turkey farm before Thanksgiving Day; Acts of God, in which Hurricane Leroy comes to the rescue of a henpecked husband; and the stunning Big Game, in which Boyle creates his own version of Hemingway`s famous The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. 13 Digit ISBN number: 9780140178395. 10 Digit ISBN: 0140178392.

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