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by Herman Wouk

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The first novel by Wouk in ten years is a light, sprightly story about lost love, high-energy physics and the machinations of Washington. At 60, physicist Guy Carpenter is thrust back into the spotlight when the Chinese make a startling announcement.

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With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.

Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide.

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We all have bad days, and Dr. Guy Carpenter awoke to rain drumming on gray windows, with a qualm in his gut about what this drab day might bring.

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  • Title A Hole in Texas
  • Author Herman Wouk
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-06-06
  • ISBN 9780316010856 / 0316010855
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.56 x 0.79 in (21.34 x 14.12 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: District of Columbia
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
    • Locality: Washington, D.C.
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Washington (D.C.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 74
  • Newsweek, 04/19/2010, Page 57

About the author

Herman Wouk's acclaimed novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Caine Mutiny; Marjorie Morningstar; Don't Stop the Carnival; Youngblood Hawke; The Winds of War; War and Remembrance; Inside, Outside; The Hope; The Glory; and A Hole in Texas.
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