No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684865522)

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: Chris Offutt
ISBN-10: 0684865521
ISBN-13: 9780684865522
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2003
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d