# Descent of Man

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- Book: [Descent of Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-coraghessan-boyle/descent-of-man) ([Descent of Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-coraghessan-boyle/descent-of-man.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Coraghessan Boyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-coraghessan-boyle)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4029-994-6
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1990-07-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Seventeen short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain, “the sort of writer who inspires even poker-faced writers to grin and start dusting off their superlatives”...