Wild child
Subtitle: stories
By: by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780670021420
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Wild child-- and other stories--
Description: 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.
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.