No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home

No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home - Paperback

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No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home - Paperback

No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home - Paperback

by Chris Offutt
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by Chris Offutt (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Chris Offutt, author of the critically acclaimed story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, the novel The Good Brother, and the memoir The Same River Twice, lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: June 23, 2010
ISBN9780684865522
Author Chris Offutt
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2010
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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