No heroes : a memoir of coming home
Chris Offutt
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Biografisk
| Utgitt | New Yourk : Simon & Schuster , 2003
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| Omfang | 276 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | 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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| Sjanger | Biografisk . - Memoarer
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| ISBN | 9780684865522 : 199 kr
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