No heroes: a memoir of coming home

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Offutt, Chris

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer comes the unforgettable memoir No Heroes. "If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and compelling writer" (Chicago Tribune). 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 create No Heroes, a profound meditation on family, home, the Holocaust, and history.;Intro; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue; Chapter 1: Job Interview; Chapter 2: Arthur Goes to War; Chapter 3: Irene Goes to the Ghetto; Chapter 4: Nine-Mile at the Video Store; Chapter 5: Arthur Meets Irene; Chapter 6: Irene Finds Freedom; Chapter 7: Beginning the Book; Chapter 8: The Library and Mrs. Jayne; Chapter 9: Arthur Works at a Labor Camp; Chapter 10: Irene Is Saved in Plaszow; Chapter 11: No Heroes; Chapter 12: First Day of School; Chapter 13: Sam and James Learn About the Holocaust; Chapter 14: Hot Rod to Haldeman; Chapter 15: Arthur Becomes a Handyman; Chapter 16: Irene Sees Beno

✦ Table of Contents

Intro
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1: Job Interview
Chapter 2: Arthur Goes to War
Chapter 3: Irene Goes to the Ghetto
Chapter 4: Nine-Mile at the Video Store
Chapter 5: Arthur Meets Irene
Chapter 6: Irene Finds Freedom
Chapter 7: Beginning the Book
Chapter 8: The Library and Mrs. Jayne
Chapter 9: Arthur Works at a Labor Camp
Chapter 10: Irene Is Saved in Plaszow
Chapter 11: No Heroes
Chapter 12: First Day of School
Chapter 13: Sam and James Learn About the Holocaust
Chapter 14: Hot Rod to Haldeman
Chapter 15: Arthur Becomes a Handyman
Chapter 16: Irene Sees Beno Chapter 17: Soup Beans and Corn BreadChapter 18: Arthur Finds a Friend
Chapter 19: Poetry Saves Irene
Chapter 20: Harley in a Car
Chapter 21: Arthur Volunteers for a Concentration Camp
Chapter 22: Irene Stays Healthy
Chapter 23: Dirty Money
Chapter 24: Jimmy Joe at the Video
Chapter 25: Arthur Loses an Eye
Chapter 26: The Worst Thing for Irene
Chapter 27: College Students Now and Then
Chapter 28: Arthur Faces Firing Squads
Chapter 29: Irene Is Saved Again
Chapter 30: Brothers of the Hill
Chapter 31: Arthur Breaks His Arm
Chapter 32: Irene Saves a Boy
Chapter 33: The Best Cake Chapter 34: Christmas BreakChapter 35: Arthur's Christmas in Camp
Chapter 36: Irene's Christmas in Camp
Chapter 37: A Hollow with Houses
Chapter 38: Arthur's Last Camp
Chapter 39: Irene Goes to a Better Camp
Chapter 40: Tilden Hogge and Poppin Rock
Chapter 41: Everything Is Simple
Chapter 42: Lunch with Alpha Three
Chapter 43: Arthur's Oath of Silence
Chapter 44: Bearing Pall
Chapter 45: Arthur Goes on a Death March
Chapter 46: Irene Goes on a Death March
Chapter 47: Shrimp and Harley on Foot
Chapter 48: Everything Is Okay
Chapter 49: Swapping Up
Chapter 50: Preserving a Name Chapter 51: Class DismissedChapter 52: Arthur Sleeps in a Bed
Chapter 53: Irene Finds Arthur
Chapter 54: Town Is Where You Go
Chapter 55: Unleashing History
Chapter 56: Arthur's War Is Over
Chapter 57: Irene Won't Steal Clothes
Chapter 58: Burying an Owl
Chapter 59: Arthur Thinks of Home
Epilogue
Copyright

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