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A Hole in Texas Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Wouk, Herman (Author)

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ISBN: 0316010855     ISBN-13: 9780316010856
Publisher: Back Bay Books
OUR PRICE: $20.89  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2005
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Annotation: The first novel by Wouk in ten years is a light, sprightly story about lost love, high-energy physics and the machinations of Washington. At 60, physicist Guy Carpenter is thrust back into the spotlight when the Chinese make a startling announcement.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | Biographical
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.56" W x 8.4" L (0.56 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
- Locality - Washington, D.C.
- Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 74
Newsweek 04/19/2010 pg. 57
 
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Publisher Description:
With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.

Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide.

 
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