No Heroes A Memoir of Coming Home
, by Offutt, ChrisNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780684865522 | 0684865521
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/2/2003
In 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 createNo Heroes,a profound meditation on family, home, the Holocaust, and history.