01475cam a2200265 4500 758622450 TxAuBib 20100430120000.0 090626s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009026518 9780670021420 hbk. $25.95 0670021423 hbk. $25.95 (OCoLC)419264198 DLC DLC JST ABG C#P HSA YDXCP BWX MOF NSB VP@ DLC TxGR TxAuBib Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Wild child [Book] : stories / by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Wild child-- and other stories- New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010. 304 p. ; 24 cm. Balto -- La conchita -- Question 62 -- Sin dolor -- Bulletproof -- Hands on -- The lie -- The unlucky mother of Aquiles Maldonado -- Admiral -- Ash Monday -- Thirteen hundred rats -- Anacapa -- Three quarters of the way to hell -- Wild child. 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. 20100430. United States Social life and customs 21st century Fiction. RV8