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Wild Child and Other Stories

With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.

Setting
21st centuryUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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