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Wild child / stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.O932 W53 2010
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--21st century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Title on cover : Wild child-- and other stories--
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010.
- Summary:
- With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
- Contents:
- Balto
- La conchita
- Question 62
- Sin dolor
- Bulletproof
- Hands on
- The lie
- The unlucky mother of Aquiles Maldonado
- Admiral
- Ash Monday
- Thirteen hundred rats
- Anacapa
- Three quarters of the way to hell
- Wild child.
- ISBN:
- 9780670021420 :
- 0670021423
- OCLC:
- 419264198
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