A Hole in Texas

A Novel

By Herman Wouk | Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

About the book

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.

Editions of A Hole in Texas

Hardcover
ISBN 9780316525909

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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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What is A Hole in Texas about?

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.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in A Hole in Texas?

Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre

Where can I read a sample of A Hole in Texas?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780316525909

How long is A Hole in Texas and how many pages does it have?

A Hole in Texas has 278 page(s)

Who is/are the Author/s of the book A Hole in Texas?

Herman Wouk

Who is the Publisher of the book A Hole in Texas?

Little, Brown and Company

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

A Hole in Texas is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780316525909)

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