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Title: Wild Child
Author: T.C. Boyle
Narrator: T.C. Boyle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2013-11-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
This is the title story from the collection Wild Child and was originally published in McSweeneys.
It is at the end of the eighteenth century, in the new French Republic, when the savage is first seen outside the village of Lacaune. The boy quickly becomes a legend among the townsfolk. Is he truly a human child or a wild beast?
Wild Child is based on the story of Victor of Aveyron, the feral child brought from the French wilderness to Paris in an attempt to civilize him. It is the story of a boy who, at the tender age of five, had his throat slit in the forest and was left for dead. It follows him from his capture by the villagers of Lacaune to his lessons with Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, a doctor specializing in teaching the deaf and mute.
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Title: Wild Child
Author: T.C. Boyle
Narrator: T.C. Boyle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2013-11-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
This is the title story from the collection Wild Child and was originally published in McSweeneys.
It is at the end of the eighteenth century, in the new French Republic, when the savage is first seen outside the village of Lacaune. The boy quickly becomes a legend among the townsfolk. Is he truly a human child or a wild beast?
Wild Child is based on the story of Victor of Aveyron, the feral child brought from the French wilderness to Paris in an attempt to civilize him. It is the story of a boy who, at the tender age of five, had his throat slit in the forest and was left for dead. It follows him from his capture by the villagers of Lacaune to his lessons with Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, a doctor specializing in teaching the deaf and mute.