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T.C. Boyle
Gathered here are all the stories that have appeared in the inventive writer’s four previous collections, as well as seven that have never before been published in book form.
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The story of illegal aliens in California, told through the eyes of two very different couples, one well-off Anglos, the other illegal Mexicans living in a canyon. The novel chronicles…
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These 14 stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, McSweeney’s and Playboy display Boyle’s imaginative muscle and range.
A mad, hilarious collection of short stories, wherein Boyle offers his unique view of dictators, animals, scientists, explorers, collectors, teetotalers, and others.
This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory…
In his fourth collection of short stories, Boyle, showing fierce, comic wit and uncanny accuracy, zooms in on an astonishingly wide range of Americans, from the college football player who…
In the title story of this collection, Boyle has created a vivid and original retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running through the forests…
Fresh on the heels of his bestselling Drop City, Boyle’s tenth novel features fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of…
Bestselling author and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Boyle recasts the battle of good and evil as an identity theft suspense story. As the tension mounts, Boyle drops crumbs of wisdom in his…
Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, Boyle now turns his fictional sights…
Hailed as one of the best short story writers of his generation, Boyle presents 16 stories–nine of which appeared in The New Yorker –that highlight the evolving excellence of his…
Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and…
The inimitable voice of New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle speaks to a brand-new audience in this anthology of his classic, richly imagined short fiction about teenagers. Includes the…
Stories ranging from the farcical to the mythic present the doings and darings of an aging Latin ball player, an Elvis Presley look-alike, a survivalist, and other figures of our…
Originally published in hardcover in 2012 by Viking.
A second volume of collected short fiction-from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story
Few authors write with such sheer love of story…
Now available in paperback, laced with wicked comic wit, this is the story of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s infamous spa. This comic masterpiece was called a marvel, enjoyable from beginning…
The lives of two different couples–wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals–suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from…
Blending idealism and satire, this story set in the year 2025 addresses universal questions of human love and the survival of the species. Global warming has collapsed the biosphere, and…
Set in 1795, Water Music is the rambunctious account of two men’s wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa.
Set in a California marijuana farm, this story shows how to make a quick two million - get a commission to grow acres of marijuana in the middle of nowhere…
Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, Boyle’s powerful novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale about…
Laura Schomaker
Master’s Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,1, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), course: American Studies, language: English…
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Los Angeles is famous for its sunny weather, for the Hollywood film studios and for being the residence of the rich and beautiful. And although - or, precisely because -…
Stellar line-up of fiction writers envision the terrors of impending climate change.
