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The fourth, critically praised collection of short stories by the author of The Road to Wellville brings together fifteen darkly comic tales about human frailty, including the title story about an ill-fated romance. Reprint.
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T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimedGreasy 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," saysThe Philadelphia Inquirer. "They make you cringe with their clarity."
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