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Wild Child-- and Other Stories-- by Boyle, T. Coraghessan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A superb new collection from "a writer who can take you anywhere" ("The New York Times")In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France, that it becomes not just new but definitive: yes, this is how it must have been. The tale is by turns magical and moving, a powerful investigation of what it means to be human. There is perhaps no one better than T.C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying his readers while at the same time testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance. The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories, whether in the form of the catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his own humanity ("La Conchita") or the wind-driven fires that howl through a high California canyon ("Ash Monday"). Other tales range from the drama of a man who spins Homeric lies in order to stop going to work, to that of a young woman who must babysit for a $250,000 cloned Afghan and the

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Author

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Publisher

Viking Children's Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101189900

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (1,504 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14