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This is the title story from the collection Wild Child and was originally published in McSweeney's.
It is at the end of the eighteenth century, in the new French Republic, when the savage is first seen outside the village of Lacaune. The boy quickly becomes a legend among the townsfolk. Is he truly a human child or a wild beast?
"Wild Child" is based on the story of Victor of Aveyron, the feral child brought from the French wilderness to Paris in...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
℗2013
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8 CDs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"This collection of fourteen stories effortlessly drifts between myth and reality, encompassing a panorama of human emotions. . Boyle travels the world in these stories, from California to Russia, Latin America to upstate New York, but his adept touch at depicting the lives of his characters never wavers"--Container.
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