{"product_id":"boyle-c-t-wild-child-9780143119005","title":"Wild Child","description":"Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 379 Publisher: Penguin In the title story of this rich new collection TC Boyle has created SO vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor the feral boy who was captured running naked-through the forests of Napoleonic France. that it becomes not just new but definitive: yes. this is how it must have been. The tale is by turns magical and moving. a powerful investigation of what it means to be human. There is perhaps no one better than TC Boyle at engaging. shocking. and ultimately gratifying his readers while at the same time testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance. The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories. whether in the form of the catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his own humanity ...","brand":"Penguin USA","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53476257792342,"sku":"9780143119005-V","price":3.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53407040274774,"sku":"9780143119005-G","price":3.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780143119005_1_e17cb330-8557-4b74-b7a5-fb173139b000.jpg?v=1778106840","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/boyle-c-t-wild-child-9780143119005","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}