{"product_id":"no-heroes-a-memoir-of-coming-home-paperback","title":"No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Offutt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. He envisions leading the modest life of a teacher and father. Yet present-day reality collides painfully with memory, leaving Offutt in the midst of an adventure he never imagined: the search for a home that no longer exists. Interwoven with this bittersweet homecoming tale are the wartime stories of Offutt's parents-in-law, Arthur and Irene. An unlikely friendship develops between the eighty-year-old Polish Jew and the forty-year-old Kentucky hillbilly as Arthur and Offutt share comfort in exile, reliving the past at a distance. With masterful prose, Offutt combines these disparate accounts to create No Heroes, a profound meditation on family, home, the Holocaust, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Offutt\u003c\/b\u003e, author of the critically acclaimed story collections \u003ci\u003eKentucky Straight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut of the Woods, \u003c\/i\u003e the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Good Brother, \u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Same River Twice, \u003c\/i\u003e lives in Iowa City, Io\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761541939488,"sku":"9780684865522","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d4ea1e44050cee7799a0ce044e18cf7b.webp?v=1780210050","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/no-heroes-a-memoir-of-coming-home-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}