No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
by Offutt, Chris
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684865513
- ISBN 13
- 9780684865515
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Synopsis
In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. He envisions leading the modest life of a teacher and father. Yet present-day reality collides painfully with memory, leaving Offutt in the midst of an adventure he never imagined: the search for a home that no longer exists. Interwoven with this bittersweet homecoming tale are the wartime stories of Offutt's parents-in-law, Arthur and Irene. An unlikely friendship develops between the eighty-year-old Polish Jew and the forty-year-old Kentucky hillbilly as Arthur and Offutt share comfort in exile, reliving the past at a distance. With masterful prose, Offutt combines these disparate accounts to create No Heroes, a profound meditation on family, home, the Holocaust, and history.
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- Open Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000748139
- Title
- No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
- Author
- Offutt, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684865513
- ISBN 13
- 9780684865515
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 3/26/2002 12:00:01 A
- Size
- 0.9488 in x 8.4016 in x 6.3819 i
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- X weight
- 0.9700 lb