No heroes
Subtitle: a memoir of coming home
By: Chris Offutt.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Offutt, Chris, 1958- -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky.; Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Kentucky -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Kentucky -- Social life and customs.; Kentucky -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to teach at his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. With the humblest of intentions, he expects to give back to his community, hoping to become, quietly, a hero of sorts. Yet present-day reality collides painfully with memory, leaving Offutt in the midst of an adventure he never imagined: searching for a home that no longer exists.".

"During that same year, Offutt records the story of his parents-in-law, Arthur and Irene, Holocaust survivors who emigrated to New York from Poland in 1946. Their moving chronicle of exile and war entwines with Offutt's attempt to find a sense of safety and home. But it is Arthur who sagely states that "home is illusory" and there are "no heroes" in life."--BOOK JACKET.