A Hole in Texas

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A Hole in Texas
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First edition
Author Herman Wouk
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Little, Brown and Company
Publication date
April 14, 2004
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 288 pages
ISBN 0-316-52590-1
OCLC 53019565
813/.54 22
LC Class PS3545.O98 H65 2004

A Hole In Texas is a novel by Herman Wouk. Published in 2004, the book describes the adventures of a high-energy physicist following the surprise announcement that a Chinese physicist (with whom he had a long-ago romance) had discovered the long-sought Higgs boson.

Parts of the plot are based on the aborted Superconducting Super Collider project.

Published by Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-52590-1.

Literary significance and reception

Kirkus Reviews said that A Hole In Texas was "Ingenious. Absolutely ingenious."[1] Publishers Weekly called it "Occasionally corny but also playful, thoughtful and passionate".[2] The journal Science said that Wouk "accurately depicts science as an often interactive and collegial enterprise", and that the novel offers a "refreshing contrast with the treatments of mad scientists that are so abundant in literature and popular culture."[3] The review in Nature had some criticism, saying that the "scientific explanations are pat and usually come in the form of long e-mails that bog down the plot", that the discussion of the Chinese people "verge on racism", and that the book's ending "falls flat".[4]

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