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The Women
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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 on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Tortilla curtain
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Two diametrically opposed couples meet--or rather, collide--in this tragi-comedy of coincidence and error. One couple--a Thoreau-esque nature writer and a rabid realtor, both L.A. liberals--lead fairly conventional 90s lives, while the other couple--two hungry illegal Mexican immigrants--scratch out an existence in a dwelling held together with ...
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T.C. Boyle Stories
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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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World's End
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This epic novel is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three time periods: the late 17th century, the 1940s and the 1960s. It follows the interwoven destinies of three families (one Indian family and two Dutch settler families) during this time period. It begins with Walter Van Brunt, a descendant of Dutch yeomen, whose fondness for drugs and ...
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Water Music
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Two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands. The story is set in 1795, whilst the rest of Europe is in turmoil - Goya is deaf, De Quincy is a depraved prepubescent and the young Ludwig von Beethoven is wowing them in Vienna with his second piano concerto.
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Road to Wellville
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T. C. Boyle tells the fictionalized story of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes. As perhaps the world's most successful health nut, Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he preached vegetarianism, colonic irrigation, and various other extreme remedies to his wealthy clients. (On his website, Boyle lists a typical ...
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The Inner Circle
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As he did in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T. C. Boyle turns to the odd fringes of American history in THE INNER CIRCLE, this time taking the notorious Alfred Kinsey as his subject. The Kinsey Reports, released in the middle of the 20th century, interviewed hundreds of American men and women about premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, and other ...
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A Friend of the Earth
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In the year 2025, when global warming and the collapse of the biosphere have resulted in the extinction of most species, Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is the caretaker for the strange menagerie of animals kept by a rock megastar in southern California. Years ago, Tyrone was a convicted ecoterrorist, estranged from his wife and daughter. Now his ...
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Drop City
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It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace has decided to relocate to the last frontier--interior Alaska. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, Boyle's ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous.
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Talk Talk
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In a novel that is at once a thrilling road trip across America and a moving tale about love, language, and who we are, the bestselling author of "The Inner Circle" and "Drop City" offers a timely story about a woman in desperate pursuit of a man who has stolen her identity.
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East is East
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Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaki jumps ship, only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. He is unwittingly caught in an amusing and complicated web of misunderstanding.
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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
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A comic novel which satirises our eternal quest for money, and our habits of addiction.
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Goodbye Jumbo: Hello Cruel World
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The author of the blockbuster bestseller Dear Dad has some inspiring new things to say about weight loss, addiction, recovery, and the healing medicine of humor. While dealing with one of today's most prevalent and baffling diseases, Anderson confronts isuses of family and self-worth that all readers can relate to. Anderson says, "If you heal the ...
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After the Plague: And Other Stories
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These 16 stories, written in Boyle's usual humorous vein, include characters ranging from a female triathlete to a grieving ghost to the handful of survivors left after a worldwide plague.
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Riven Rock: 1
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The son of a wealthy inventor is incarcerated in a Santa Barbara mental hospital because of a psychosexual disorder that makes him attack women on sight. His male nurse is a womanizing alcoholic, and his long-suffering and devoted wife never loses hope for his recovery. This novel is based on the true story of Stanley McCormick (heir to the ...
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Drop City: 5
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In T. C. Boyle's ninth novel, a group of homesteaders and commune-dwellers in the most frigid part of Alaska find their placid lives disrupted by the clash of ideas and values. Set in 1970, DROP CITY explores the spaced-out worldview of the counterculture, and the tensions that arise when the political and the personal fail to coincide. In DROP ...
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Greasy Lake & Other Stories
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This collection of 15 short stories includes "Ike and Nina," the tale of an imaginary affair between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Khrushchev's wife; "The Hector Quesadilla Story," a sad tale of an aging ball player; "The Overcoat II," Boyle's modern-day take on the classic Gogol story; and the much-anthologized title story, in which a pack of very na ...
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Without a Hero: 9and Other Stories
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This collection of 15 of T.C. Boyle's incomparable short stories dates from the early 1990s. They include "Carnal Knowledge," about a hapless animal rights group trying to liberate a turkey farm before Thanksgiving Day; "Acts of God," in which Hurricane Leroy comes to the rescue of a henpecked husband; and the stunning "Big Game," in which Boyle ...
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Tooth and Claw
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T. C. Boyle's eclectic collection ranges from a story about the family of a boy who died during a fraternity drinking binge ("When I Woke Up This Morning, Everything I Had Was Gone"), to a harrowing tale set in a tough inner-city school ("Up Against the Wall"), to a woman who tries to become a dog ("Dogology"), to one based on an actual journal ...
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Budding prospects
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At 31, Felix Nasmith is a lifelong loser, but finally he gets his chance to shine when he and a couple of particularly manic friends (who include an ex-CIA agent who is now a gourmet cook) come up with a scheme to get rich quick by growing marijuana. Determined to harvest a half-million-dollar crop over the course of a summer, they get involved in ...
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Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories
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Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories the give students the opportunity to enjoy the works of today's literary lights through close reading and analysis.
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The Road to Wellville: 2tie-In
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T. C. Boyle tells the fictionalized story of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes. As perhaps the world's most successful health nut, Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he preached vegetarianism, colonic irrigation, and various other extreme remedies to his wealthy clients. (On his website, Boyle lists a typical ...
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Exp the Women
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Riven Rock
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This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, ...
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Descent of Man: Stories
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T. C. Boyle's first collection of short fiction includes "Heart of a Champion," in which a very smart Lassie has to keep saving a very dim-witted Timmy; "Bloodfall," about members of a commune watching dispassionately as blood instead of rain falls outside their windows; and the title story, about a woman involved in an affair with a chimp who ...
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