No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home - Chris Offutt - Books - Simon & Schuster - 9780684865522 - April 2, 2003
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No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home Reprint edition

Chris Offutt

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No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home Reprint edition

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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 2, 2003
ISBN13 9780684865522
Publishers Simon & Schuster
Pages 272
Dimensions 139 × 213 × 17 mm   ·   362 g
Language English  

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