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Without a Hero
Stories
by T. C. Boyle
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9780140178395,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
1995
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9780670849635,
Hardcover,
Penguin Group USA,
1994
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Publisher Notes
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."
Media Reviews
"The literary performances here retain Mr. Boyle's astonishing and characteristic verve, his unaverted gaze...His prolific pen is...in satirical overdrive. He may try to smile warmly, wisely, sadly, but his Cheshire grin won't go away...Mr. Boyle's impulses--his penchant for the sardonic, for the put-on, for the manic unanswerable question--are perfectly suited to and accomodated by the short story's brevity and force."
First Line
The way to hunt is for as long as you live against as long as there is such and such an animal.
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