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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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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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Paul Gleason
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…
Cengage Learning Gale
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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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…
T. C Boyle
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…
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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…
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…
‘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…
‘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…
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How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was … not exactly human?
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 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…
The latest masterpiece from the unstoppable T.C. Boyle, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life - no matter what the fallout
Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on…
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.
_______________________ ‘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…
T C Boyle
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…
"From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change"--
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…
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.
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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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.
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)
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 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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Heidi Pitlor
Award-winning and best-selling author T.C. Boyle guest edits this year’s The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction.
Raises the question, If Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the…
M. T. C. Cronin,Peter Boyle
Subtitled The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli - a neglected 20th century poet much influenced by Celan and Vallejo - this collection represents the merging of two fine…
