num_pages: 238
description: T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy 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," says The Philadelphia Inquirer . "They make you cringe with their clarity."
language: English
title: Without a Hero: Stories
titlecomplete: Without a Hero: Stories
genres: Short Stories, American, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction, Literature, Collections, German Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 643
publisher: Penguin Books