Wild child
By: by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408809495
Subjects: Short stories; Allegories; Domestic fiction; Work environment; Fiction; Neighbors; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: A new collection from the American master of the short story. A feral boy is captured and civilised in the Languedoc region. A young women is hired to look after a cloned dog that cost its owners $250,000. A widower in a self-satisfied suburb engulfs his loneliness in a sea of rats.
Notes: Originally published: 2010.
Table of contents: title: Balto; title: La conchita; title: Question 62; title: Sin dolor; title: Bulletproof; title: Hands on; title: The lie; title: The unlucky mother of Aquiles Maldonado; title: Admiral; title: Ash Monday; title: Thirteen hundred rats; title: Anacapa; title: Three quarters of the way to hell; title: Wild child.