9780140178395
Without a Hero: Stories
T. C. Boyle
ISBN 13: 9780140178395
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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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."
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"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."
Lorrie Moore, New York Times Book Review
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