After the Plague

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 9780142001417
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Penguin Group USA

Min Price: 1.00 Max Price: 36.00

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.

After the Plague ( ISBN 9780142001417 )

Abraxus Books

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price : 12 USD
Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here, nine of which have appeared in The New Yorker and three in The O'Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories volumes, display Boyle's astonishing range as he rings his changes on everything from air rage ("Friendly Skies") to abortion doctors ("Killing Babies"). There are also stories of quiet passion here, such as "The Love of My Life," which deals with first love and its consequences, and "My Widow," a touching portrait of the writer's own possible future. The collection ends with the brilliant title story, a whimsical and imaginative vision of a disease-ravaged Earth and the few inheritors of a new Eden. Presented with characteristic wit and intelligence, these stories will delight readers in search of the latest news of the chaotic, disturbing, and achingly beautiful world in which we live. Author Biography: T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of five short story collections including his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories, and eight novels, most recently A Friend of the Earth. His 1987 novel, World's End, was the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Tortilla Curtain won the Prix Médici Étranger in 1997 for best novel published in France by a foreign writer. In 1999, he received thePEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. His fiction appears regularly in magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, GQ, The Paris Review, and Playboy.

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