Wild child

By T. Coraghessan Boyle

Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), United states, social life and customs, fiction

Description: 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.