Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Without a Hero and Other Stories

ISBN: 0670849634
New York, NY: Viking/ Penguin Group, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "A critic recently said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, "More happens in one of Boyle's stories than in most post-Victorian novels." This is precisely the case in Without a Hero, fifteen stunning stories that each, in its own way, displays a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America. In this, his fourth story collection, Boyle takes chance after chance, even to the point of reexamining the ethos of Ernest Hemingway, one of the masters of the form. In "Big Game," the wild animal safari takes place not in Africa but on a pay-per-shoot ranch in Southern California and includes an elephant hunt and its vivid consequences. There are echoes here of Hemingway's classic "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Green Hills of Africa, but Boyle's hunting story is drawn for the age of ecology rather than an age without limits." (from front flap) The fourth collection of short stories by T(homas) Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948), the award-winning, acclaimed & prolific American writer. An eclectic & exemplary collection of stories that dizzyingly range across predicaments, topics, allusions & American archetypes. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $21.95 price & "0594" printed at front flap), first edition, first printing as indicated by number sequence on copyright page. An essential, delightfully disturbing (disturbingly delightful?) Boyle collectible in its rarest original form. Book in very fine condition with only a touch of wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; mild-to-moderate light spotting at upper edge of text block. Interior very fine, substantially mint. Dust jacket fine-to-very-fine with very light rubbing & a hint of browning to front, back covers & spine; very slight wear & some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps; small circular area of light sticker-removal residue at lower spine (partly at publisher's logo); partially removed sticker over barcode window at lower right back cover incl. slashed "Z" hand-written in blue ink. Very Fine / Fine- Very Fine. [Item #5871]

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