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T. C. Boyle
The joyfully freewheeling, funny and profound new novel from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
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A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from ‘one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today’ (Lionel Shriver)
For one woman, a cross-country…
A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiance, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her…
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The author of seven short story collections and eleven novels, T C Boyle has been honored with the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for World’s End and the 1997 Prix Medicis Etranger…
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T. C. Boyle's seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. It is the…
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A Study Guide for T. C. Boyle’s Tortilla Curtain, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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A Study Guide for T. C. Boyle’s Greasy Lake, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside…
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Dans une foret du Languedoc, des chasseurs capturent un garcon errant, nu et hirsute. Qui est-il, cetenfant sauvage , aussi depourvu, semble-t-il, d'ame et de raison qu'une bete…
Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world’s most ambitious ecological experiment. Gazing longingly at Ecosphere II, which rises like a…
A collection of twelve stories that present a whole new way of looking at the world.
The Tortilla Curtain en Espaol. When a freak accident brings together two couples from opposite sides of the tracks in Los Angeles, their opposing worlds gradually intersect in a tragicomedy…
One family’s adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of ‘one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today’ (Lionel Shriver)
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There’s more than one to way to take a life in this masterful thriller from one of the greatest voices in American contemporary fiction
Dana sits in a courtroom with…
_______________________ ‘A comedy with teeth … razor sharp and darkly funny’ (TIMES) ‘Boyle’s prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back…
Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people – an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the…
A freak accident causes two couples–a pair of Los Angeles liberals and Mexican illegals–and their opposing worlds to collide in a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
‘One of the funniest, most subtle novels we’ve had about the hippy era’s slow fade to black … this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel’ (New York Times…
From the title story, which features a so-called relive box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past, to ‘The Five-Pound Burrito,’ the tale of a…
Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-Earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they…
A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife.
From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals
When animal behaviorist…
An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In
In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a…
The biggest novel yet from the master of American fiction, the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, T.C. Boyle. A New York Times Notable Book 2012.
How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was … not exactly human?
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‘Howlingly marvellous … Gripping and inescapably bittersweet’ Boston Globe
‘Hits the mark … Real and relevant’ BookTrib ____________________
Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering…
A Study Guide for T. C. Boyle’s Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary…
Robert Coover
Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald’s party continues around her murdered…
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From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals When animal behaviorist…
