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Understanding T. C. Boyle (Hardcover)

Author: Paul Gleason
Category: General
ISBN : 9781570037801
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
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If the River Was Whiskey

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140119503
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-05-19
T.C. Boyle's stories range from the wickedly satirical to the tenderly insightful, and have received as much acclaim as his novels. IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY brings together 16 of his tragi-comic stories, including The Devil and Irv Cherniske (in which an ordinary businessman sells his soul to the devil), Thawing Out (a love story about a man whose amazing girlfriend belongs to the Polar Bear Club

The Women (Compact Disc)

Author: T. C. Boyle, Grover Gardner
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781433260636
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, he tells the story of the passionate, uncompromising, and brilliant architect Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of his wives, mistresses, and apprentices--ma

The Women (MP3 CD)

Author: T. C. Boyle, Grover Gardner
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781433260643
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, he tells the story of the passionate, uncompromising, and brilliant architect Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of his wives, mistresses, and apprentices--ma

Greasy Lake and Other Stories

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140077810
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-26
Sixteen-year-old Barney anticipates a long, hot, dull summer when his parents rent a beach house despite knowing that Barney can`t enjoy the ocean because he gets terrible sunburns. However, Barney does find something interesting to occupy his mind--Joe, Manny, and Zena, the three exotic and glamorous strangers who have rented the small cottage next door. As Barney gets to know the unusual trio,

A Friend of the Earth

Author: T. C. Boyle, Scott Brick
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780141002057
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
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 daughter, Sierra, re-enters his life. In a series o

World`s End

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General History
ISBN : 9780140299939
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
T.C. Boyle sets his third novel on his own home ground, the Hudson Valley, Legend of Sleepy Hollow Territory, where Walter van Brunt travels into his family`s past in an attempt to learn the truth of his father`s disappearance. Alongside this story is a more comprehensive historical narrative detailing the relations between the Van Brunts and the Kitchawank Indians many centuries before Walter

The Tortilla Curtain

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140238280
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
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 spit. Told from each of their view-points, the narra

Without a Hero

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140178395
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-05-19
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 creates his own version of Hemingway`s famous The

Budding Prospects

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General
ISBN : 9780140299960
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-27
T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range, richness, and exuberance. His stories have won accolades for their irony and black humor, for their verbal pyrotechnics, for their fascination with everything bizarre and queasy, and for the

Tooth And Claw

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780143037439
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
These 14 stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's and Playboy display Boyle's imaginative muscle and range.

After the Plague

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780142001417
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-05-19
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.

Tortilla Curtain

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780786174263
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
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 spit. Told from each of their view-points, the narra

Descent of Man

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140299946
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
A mad, hilarious collection of short stories, wherein Boyle offers his unique view of dictators, animals, scientists, explorers, collectors, teetotalers, and others.

Irish Plays and Playwrights

Author: Cornelius Weygandt
Category: Drama
ISBN : 9781410209702
Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
Last update : 2009-05-22
CONTENTSThe Celtic RenaissanceThe Players and their Plays, their Audience and their ArtMr. William Butler YeatsMr. Edward Martyn and Mr. George MooreMr. George W. Russell ( A. E. )Lady GregoryJohn Millington SyngeThe Younger Dramatists - Mr. Padraic Colum; Mr. William Boyle; Mr. T. C. Murray; Mr. S. Lennox Robinson; Mr. Rutherford Mayne; Norreys Connell ; Mr. St. John G. Ervine; Mr. Joseph Campbe

America / The Tortilla Curtain

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General
ISBN : 9781433213083
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-27
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America / The Tortilla Curtain

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General
ISBN : 9781433213069
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
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Exp the Women (Hardcover)

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General
ISBN : 9780670020751
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-05-19

Talk Talk

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Action & Thrillers
ISBN : 9780143112150
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
T.C. Boyle returns with another brash novel of the American underbelly. When Dana Halter, a beautiful deaf woman, is pulled over in a routine traffic stop, the cops find multiple felonies on her record. With the help of new boyfriend Bridger she finally manages to escape from the judicial nightmare, and the two begin tracking down the people who have stolen her identity: William Peck Wilson, a

The Inner Circle

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Education
ISBN : 9780143035862
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
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 shocking issues--and their findings revolutionized s

The Women (Hardcover)

Author: T. C. Boyle, Grover Gardner
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780670020416
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life.

Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle's account of Wright's life, as

Water Music

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140065503
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
In 104 chapters, T.C. Boyle`s hugely comic picaresque novel attaches the story of Ned Rise, thief and pimp, to the actual exploits of the real Mungo Park, one of Europe`s greatest explorers. The intricate plot describes their adventures through 18th-century London, Scotland, and--especially--a vividly evoked Africa. WATER MUSIC, Boyle`s first full-length work of fiction (published in 1981), carri

The Road to Wellville

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140167184
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
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 breakfast menu at the spa: Nut Lisbon Steak, Protose Patti

Wild Child (Hardcover)

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780670021420
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
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The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Hardcover)

Author: Heidi Pitlor, Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780618788767
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Last update : 2009-08-28
The acclaimed annual short fiction series--this year featuring guest editor Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses--showcases the work of such notable authors as T. C. Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss, Steven Millhauser, Jonathan Lethem, Karen Russell, and other notables, from a variety of acclaimed sources. Simultaneous.

Min Price: 1600  Max Price: 2063 

The Women (Compact Disc)

Author: T. C. Boyle, Grover Gardner
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781433260612
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, he tells the story of the passionate, uncompromising, and brilliant architect Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of his wives, mistresses, and apprentices--ma

The Women (Audio Cassette)

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General
ISBN : 9781433260605
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, he tells the story of the passionate, uncompromising, and brilliant architect Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of his wives, mistresses, and apprentices--ma

The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Paperback)

Author: Heidi Pitlor, Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780618788774
Publisher : Mariner Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
The acclaimed annual short fiction series--this year featuring guest editor Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses--showcases the work of such authors as T. C. Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss, Steven Millhauser, Jonathan Lethem, Karen Russell, and other notables, from a variety of acclaimed sources. Simultaneous.

Min Price: 800  Max Price: 1087 

The Women (Large Print,Book)

Author: T. C. Boyle, Grover Gardner
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781597229296
Publisher : Wheeler Pub Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, he tells the story of the passionate, uncompromising, and brilliant architect Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of his wives, mistresses, and apprentices--ma

East Is East

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: General Art
ISBN : 9780140131673
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
A sailor with the half-ironic name of Hiro, the mixed-race son of a Japanese woman and an American hippie, is persecuted at home in Japan as a butter-stinker. In an attempt to improve his life, he jumps ship and swims to Georgia, where he hopes to find acceptance. Instead, he encounters snakes, rednecks, and the mad residents of an artist`s colony. And before long the US Immigration Service is

Drop City

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780142003800
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-27
It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naive optimism, the inhabitants of Drop City arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia alre

Riven Rock

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Medical
ISBN : 9780140271669
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
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 McCormick Reaper fortune) and his suffragist wife, Kathe

The Human Fly and Other Stories

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9780142403631
Publisher : Speak
Last update : 2009-08-27
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 previously uncollected story, Almost Shooting an Elephant.

The Human Fly And Other Stories

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9780670060542
Publisher : Viking Childrens Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
The author, known for his trademark wit, unforgiving take on American life, and his all-too-human protagonists, presents a collection of classic stories about teenagers, including The Love of My Life. Simultaneous.

T. C. Boyle Stories

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN : 9780140280913
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
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.

Birds in the Hand

Author: Kent Nelson, Dylan Nelson
Category: General
ISBN : 9780865477209
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Last update : 2009-05-19
A fascinating anthology of bird literature includes writing from Charles Baxter, T. C. Boyle, Flannery O`Connor, Jim Harrison, Pattiann Rogers, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, and Ethan Canin, among others. Original.

Love Stories (Hardcover)

Author: Diana Secker Tesdell
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780307270870
Publisher : Everymans Library
Last update : 2009-08-28
An evocative compilation of literary love stories features nineteen works from a wide range of international authors that explore every aspect of romantic relationships, with works by D. H. Lawrence, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Roald Dahl, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, T. C. Boyle, Italo Calvino, and others. 30,000 first printing.

The Sucker's Kiss

Author: Alan Parker
Category: General
ISBN : 9780312329761
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Praise for The Sucker's Kiss Alan Parker is a master of historical perspective. In The Sucker's Kiss, he evokes early twentieth-century San Francisco with all the grit and ferment of a West Coast William Kennedy. - T. C. Boyle Alan Parker has written an engaging, entertaining romp. . . . His rogue's story is funny, ebullient, and ultimately poignant. - Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley Memo t