A Hole in Texas

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.

Author: Herman Wouk
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 06/06/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.56w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780316010856
ISBN10: 0316010855
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | Biographical

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.