Wild child : stories / by T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Author/creator Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010.
Description304 pages ; 24 cm
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Variant title Title on cover : Wild child-- and other stories--
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.
Abstract 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.
LCCN 2009026518
ISBN9780670021420
ISBN0670021423

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3552.O932 W53 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold