A Hole in Texas

Synopsis

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.

Ideas Explored

• Science Politicization and Media Amplification

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Man-woman relationshipsNational securityLiteratureOfficials and employeesSatireFictionUnited StatesScience fictionUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhysicists

ISBN: 9781306755511 — Little Brown & Company, 2004, English

11 more editions

• 9780316000727 — Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 1991, English
• 9780759510678 — Little Brown & Company, 2004, English
• 9780316019927 — Little Brown & Company, 2007, English
• 9780759510708 — Little Brown & Company, 2004, English
• 9780759510685 — Little, Brown and Company, 2004, electronic resource, English
• 9780759510661 — Little, Brown and Company, 2004, electronic resource, English
• 9780759510692 — Little, Brown and Company, 2004, electronic resource, English
• 9780316010856 — Back Bay Books, 2005, paperback, English
• 9781586216863 — Hachette Audio, 2004, audio cassette, English
• 9781594830556 — Hachette Audio, 2005, audio cassette, English
• 9780316525909 — Little, Brown, 2004, hardcover, English

openlibrary_id: OL729133W

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