Without a hero : stories / by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Fifteen satirical stories from a master of the art. In the title story a yuppie tries to impress a Russian immigrant with the consumer culture and finds himself outdone, "Big Game," is about a phony game ranch in California, and in "Carnal Knowledge," a woman convinces a man to liberate a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Item details
- ISBN: 0670849634 :
- ISBN: 9780670849635
- Physical Description: 238 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 1994.
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | Big game -- Hopes rise -- Filthy with things -- Without a hero -- Respect -- Acts of God -- Back in the eocene -- Carnal knowledge -- The 100 faces of death, volume IV -- 56-0 -- Top of the food chain -- Little America -- Beat -- The fog man -- Sitting on top of the world. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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Subject: | United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Short stories. |
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