The Wild (novel)

{{Short description|1991 novel by Whitley Strieber}}{{Needs more citations|date=April 2025}}

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| name = The Wild

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| image = The Wild (novel).jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Whitley Strieber

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Fantasy

| publisher = Tor Books

| pub_date = March 1991

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| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 378 pages

| isbn = 0-8125-1277-4

| oclc= 23150180

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The Wild is a fantasy novel by American ufologist and horror fiction writer Whitley Strieber that was first published in 1991.{{Cite web |title=The Wild {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/0-8125-1277-4 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=isbndb.com}}

It tells the story of Bob Duke, a failed poet-turned-worker at Sculley-era Apple Computer's New York City branch who can barely pay the bills for his wife and 12-year-old son. However, as his grasp on his family's finances slips by the day, he begins to lose his very physical composition, gradually metamorphosing into a wolf. Soon, his wife, son, and therapist all are drawn into his predicament as he seeks to come to terms with what he has metamorphosed

into without losing his still-human mind, or his very family.