A Hole in Texas, Herman Wouk
A Hole in Texas, Herman Wouk
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A Hole in Texas
A Novel

Author: Herman Wouk

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2005

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.

About Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. He was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Russia, and received an A. B. from Columbia University. He was first a radio scriptwriter, and worked with Fred Allen, then in 1941 worked for the US government on radio spots selling war bonds. Wouk then joined the United States Navy and served in the Pacific Theater, an experience he later characterized as educational; "I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans." His first ship was the USS Zane, then he was second-in-command on the Southard. He started his writing career onboard, working on a novel during his off-duty hours. He married Betty Sarah Brown in 1945, with whom he had three sons, became a fulltime writer in 1946, and published his debut novel, Aurora Dawn in 1947. In 1952, The Caine Mutiny received the Pulitzer Prize. In 1998, he received the Guardian of Zion Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by S.E. on December 29, 2011

Interesting story -- another Wouk plot about the intricacies and difficulties of a marriage in connection with larger national issues. Thanks to this book, I laughed at a joke I wouldn't have understood before reading it: A Higgs boson walks into a Catholic church. The priest tells him that no bosons......more

Goodreads review by Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog on September 15, 2018

Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson Blues? I'm going down to Geneva, baby Gonna teach it to you Who cares? Who cares what the future brings? Fm: The Higgs Boson Blues, Nick Cage and the Bad Seeds, release 2013 Herman Wouk’s A Hole in Texas is not bad. It is not the bitterly acerbic satire of Heller......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on November 26, 2010

I'd like to think that, if the project I've been working on these many years sees the light of day and achieves a life of its own, and if I then turn my hand to fiction, that the result would be something like this novel. What I mean is that, as a tech writer, I've spent a lot of time conveying detai......more

Goodreads review by Kelly_Hunsaker_reads on September 08, 2020

Herman Wouk has long been one of my favorite authors. I have read both The Winds of War and War and Remembrance many times. And, The Caine Mutiny blew me away upon my first reading last year. These books are filled with intelligent and interesting history, exploring love, family and hope. I love eac......more

Goodreads review by Gerald on September 30, 2013

Guy Carpenter, a 60-year-old physicist is married, the father of two, including a new baby and lives a quiet ordinary life. He once worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, a gigantic federally funded project in Texas aimed at finding the elusive Higgs bosun subatomic particle. Congress defunde......more

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