No Heroes

A Memoir of Coming Home

von Chris Offutt

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Simon & Schuster
• ISBN: 9780684865522
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2003
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster