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Can I read No Heroes : A Memoir of Coming Home on EtoBox?

No Heroes : A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is No Heroes : A Memoir of Coming Home about?

From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer comes the unforgettable memoir No Heroes . "If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and compelling writer" ( Chicago Tribune ). 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.

Who reads No Heroes : A Memoir of Coming Home?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Chris Offutt
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Inc, HarperCollins Distribution Services [distributor],. Jonathan Ball Publishers SA [distributor],. Simon & Schuster Ltd,Australia [distributor],. HarperCollins New Zealand [distributor],. Seven Hills Book Distributors [distributor
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9780684865522
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Biography
Rating
3.77 / 5 (156 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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