Wouk A Hole in Texas

Herman Wouk: A Hole in Texas: A Novel, Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316525901 Good in Very Good jacket

Wouk, Herman, A Hole in Texas: A Novel; New York, NY, U.S.A. : Little Brown & Company, 2004. Hard Cover. GOOD HB/ VG DJ ( (VERY SLIGHT MOSITURE DAMAGE TOP EDGE DJ AND BOOK. otherwise would be as new. 6.25X9.5, 278 Pages. The first novel in a decade from the legendary bestselling author--""A rollicking Washington tale about a media firestorm swirling around a vast Hole in Texas and one obscure scientist who gets swept up in the vortex. "ISBN: 0316525901. 2004 2004 Hardcover

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Wouk, Herman: A Hole in Texas [LARGE PRINT] Little, Brown April 14, 2004 ISBN: 0316000728
Still working more than 50 years after he won the Pulitzer for The Caine Mutiny, and more than 30 years after The Winds of War, Wouk, now nearly 90, has license to write what he pleases: in this case, a light, sprightly story about lost love, high-energy physics and the machinations of Washington. At 60, physicist Guy Carpenter is happily married and the father of two, including a new baby. In the late 1980s and early '90s, he worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, a gigantic federally funded project in Texas aimed at finding the elusive Higgs bosun subatomic particle. Congress pulled the plug on the SSC in 1993 in real life as well as in the novel professionally stranding Carpenter and leaving the Higgs bosun undiscovered. Ten years later, Carpenter has gotten his life back in order, but when a group of Chinese scientists publish a paper claiming to have discovered the Higgs bosun, his quiet existence is upended. Not only was Carpenter a key staff member on the SSC, he has sustained a secret romance since graduate school with Wen Mei Li, the chief scientist on the Chinese team. This confluence of circumstances puts Carpenter on the spot with his wife, the media, Congress and possibly the CIA. It also introduces him to a former movie star congresswoman, who's charmed by his intellect and sympathetic to his plight. The plot is busy but secondary to Carpenter's banter and romantic escapades. Occasionally corny but also playful, thoughtful and passionate, this first novel by Wouk in 10 years will charm fans with its companionable warmth and wry humor.

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Wouk, Herman; Davis, Jonathan (Reader). A HOLE IN TEXAS. Time Warner Audio Books, 2005.
050804c; Guy Carpenter is a physicist with a quiet, setled life: a prestigious job at NASA, a devoted wife and new baby, and a troublemaking cat. But he is about to get mixed up in an international scandal of enormous proportions. The legendary bestselling author of War and Remembrance, The Winds of war and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Caine Mutiny returns with his first work of fiction in ten years, a smart and funny look at the often unbelievable, sometimes absurd interplay of science, media and politics.. 159483055X.

Audio Cassette, Original owner; purchased new in factory shrink wrap. Played once. Tapes like new; box has light shelf wear. Approximately 10 hours unabridged on 6 cassette tapes. ; Fine.

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Herman Wouk: A Hole in Texas: A Novel, Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316010855 Very Good. No Jacket

Author: Herman Wouk: A Hole in Texas: A Novel: Published by Back Bay Books, . Very Good Softbound front cover has some curl, otherwise a nice softbound without other marks or creases. Paperback edition, Synopsis: Guy Carpenter is an astrophysicist who, until the project lost its funding, used to work on the Higgs Boson, a force field that, if harnessed, could power a devastating bomb. Now the Chinese have the Boson--and Guy's old girlfriend and fellow phys. Cop 288pp. ISBN: 0316010855. 2004 2004 Paperback

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