New Releases by T. Coraghessan Boyle

From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change. "Boyle has long been one of the most exciting and intelligent storytellers in the United States." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human? Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show circuit with an unusual protege in tow: a chimp by the name of Sam. Sam lives in Guy''s apartment, wears diapers and neckties, devours pizza and Macdonalds - and, through Guy''s careful training, can communicate through sign language. But living with Sam is wreaking havoc on Guy''s personal life, and when shy, meek undergraduate Aimee Villard volunteers to take on babysitting for him, he can''t believe his luck. Aimee and Sam have an immediate rapport, and before Guy knows it she''s moved in, proudly devoting herself to Sam''s care and Guy''s project. Aimee has never known purpose and happiness like this; but when Guy''s funding is imperilled, and Sam is taken away by the sinister Moncrief, her world falls apart. Aimee discovers just how far she''ll go to, and just what she''ll risk, to be united with the chimp she''s come to love so much.

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)Chosen as a Book of the Year 2019 by the HeraldIt is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to support their son, they are not the sort of people one would expect to be seduced by the nascent drug culture. But their nights on LSD prove so extraordinary - so revelatory, so earth-shattering, so downright seductive - that Fitzhugh and Joanie are soon captive to the whims of the charismatic and subversive Dr Tim. Follow Fitzhugh and Joanie on their quest for transcendence, as sultry Mexican nights at Hotel Catalina give way to a ramshackle mansion in upstate New York, where thirty devotees - students, wives and children - play out the final act of a terrible, beautiful experiment. Join us, won''t you? It''s going to be one hell of a trip.

Un voyage troublant dans une Amérique hantée par le démon de la violence et de la folie. Un roman contemporain et plein de suspense qui offre des pages magistrales sur l''épopée de Colter à travers les terres indiennes. Une plongée dans la psyché américaine à travers la rencontre de trois êtres blessés par la vie et les relations conflictuelles entre un père et son fils. "Un formidable roman sur les obsessions de l''Amérique." Voici "Un roman décapant." Elle "En refermant le livre, on est éberlué, secoué, en état de choc. Du nihilisme comme morale littéraire, avec l''humour pour seul remède." Le Figaro littéraire

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIt''s 1994, and in the Arizona desert a grand experiment is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," are to live under glass in a prototype of an off-earth colony. With humor and wit, T.C. Boyle inhabits the perspectives of the players in this survivalist game, illuminating the inherent fallibility of human nature.

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Mi sono seduto e ho aperto Se il fiume fosse whisky e l''ho finito tutto, poi ho alzato gli occhi e ho scoperto che il mio aereo era partito. T. Coraghessan Boyle è uno degli scrittori piú coinvolgenti, appassionanti, spiritosi, fuori di testa che mi sia capitato di leggere. Ha un unico difetto: può produrre dipendenza. Niccolò Ammaniti

A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. Giant men are kept in cages to ensure their nightly service to their country. A man develops an unhealthy interest in his recently deceased reclusive rock-star neighbour. And on Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo a terrible and tragic event occurs.These stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in an enthralling collection.

The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year''s Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel. Joined by her husband, a fiercely possessive Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha strives to persevere in the face of brutal isolation. But the constant wind and sheep-ravaged wasteland shatter her illusions; her husband promised paradise. As he obsessively resolves to stay - and becomes increasingly distant from her and their adopted daughter Edith - Marantha''s blighted lungs grow weaker in the dampness. Two years later, Edith, now a spirited teenager and an aspiring actress, will exploit every opportunity to escape the captivity her father has imposed on her. March, 1930. Another family - and another bride - arrives on San Miguel.Elise Lester, a librarian from New York City, and her husband Herbie, a World War I veteran full of manic energy, achieve a celebrity of sorts as the news cameras take an interest in these wayward people living in the wild. But the unyielding island is haunted by its history. Will the family be able to cling together as the war threatens to pull everything apart? San Miguel is a vivid and gripping story of hard lives pitched against the elements, the desires of stubborn men and the unbearable burden of love, from master American storyteller T. C. Boyle.

1797. Dans une forêt du Languedoc, des chasseurs capturent un garçon errant, nu et hirsute. Qui est-il, cet "enfant sauvage", aussi dépourvu, semble-t-il, d''âme et de raison qu''une bête ? Après avoir été exhibé tel un monstre de foire, il est finalement abandonné à son incurable sauvagerie. Seul le docteur Itard s''entête à croire que de cet "animal" il saura faire un homme. Des années durant, l''enfant, rebaptisé Victor, va subir l''apprentissage de la civilisation sous la férule de son maître. Dans ce récit, bref et intense, T. C. Boyle s''empare de la célèbre histoire de Victor de l''Aveyron, qui inspira aussi l''un de ses plus beaux films à François Truffaut. Inhabituellement bref et émouvant, L''Enfant sauvage voit le satiriste enragé se muer en poète et trouver dans l''empathie un antidote à sa coutumière causticité.

Un pauvre type qui devient propriétaire d''une panthère à la suite d''un pari ; une ethnologue qui se prend pour un chien ; un DJ décidé à battre le record du monde de l''insomnie ; des alligators dans un parc d''attractions ; quelques catastrophes naturelles. T.C. Boyle prend un plaisir contagieux à fracasser la vie de ses héros, à les livrer aux caprices d''un destin méchamment farceur ou aux griffes d''étranges bêtes sauvages... La cruauté, chez Boyle, n''est jamais gratuite ni mauvaise. Il s''agit avant tout de savourer avec jubilation une prose irrésistible de drôlerie et d''inventivité. Et de découvrir, derrière l''extravagance, une méditation très incisive sur l''Amérique des ombres, des laissés-pour-compte et de la paranoïa ordinaire.

Historisk fiktiv roman. I spring frem og tilbage i de sidste tre hundrede år fortælles den barokke historie om livet ved Hudsonfloden i USA, og om den måde på hvilken nogle slægters skæbne kom til at påvirke hinanden.

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 the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

The island of Anacapa is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these rodents. But with days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma''s plan is in danger of sabotage.

Historisk eventyrroman om den skotske læge Mungo Park der drager ud for at udforske Nigerflodeni Vestafrika sammen med den altid uheldige småforbryder Ned Rice. T.C. Boyles første roman

Au fil des années, T C Boyle s''est taillé une réputation de maître dans l''art de la nouvelle : le style y est sophistiqué, l''humour noir à souhait, et l''imagination sans bornes. Après les thèmes universels que sont l''amour et la mort, le voici qui s''attaque à ce qui régit vraiment les lois du monde : le bizarre... Vous avez dit bizarre ? Dans un monde postapocalyptique, trois solitaires qui ont échappé au virus Ebola se retrouvent ; des champions s''affrontent dans une escalade de goinfrerie ; et une galerie de doux déjantés, d''hallucinés en tout genre se croisent dans ces tableaux pour le moins étranges... Ces nouvelles pleines d''esprit brossent le portrait d''une Amérique loufoque, haute en couleur, avec sa part d''ombre aussi, et ses angoisses.

" En Amérique, on peut très bien avoir une part de sang nègre, deux parts de sang serbo-croate et trois parts de sang esquimau, et se promener dans la rue sans avoir à baisser la tête... " C''est du moins ce que croit Hito, un jeune Japonais de père américain, élevé dans la tradition samouraï la plus rigide, lorsqu''il débarque aux Etats-Unis. Mais rien n''est comme il l''imaginait, dans cette région des marécages de Géorgie où il échoue. Traqué par les services de l''Immigration, en butte à la hargne des " braves gens " du Vieux Sud, poursuivi pour meurtre, il se réfugie dans une communauté d''écrivains mégalomanes et paumés, où son odyssée trouvera un épilogue à la fois dérisoire et tragique. C''est l''histoire d''un Candide d''aujourd''hui que nous conte, avec un humour ravageur, le romancier d''Au bout du monde, un des meilleurs écrivains de la jeune littérature américaine.

Having fallen completely in love with hearing-impaired Dana, Bridger is unable to believe her guilty of charges ranging from assault to auto theft and discovers that a man named Peck Wilson has been living a life of criminal excess at Dana''s expense.

Since Descent of Manappeared in 1979, T. C. Boyle has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time; in a review of his most recent collection, After the Plague, The New York Timeshailed him as “a writer who can take you anywhere.” Which is exactly what Boyle does in Tooth and Claw.These fourteen stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and Playboy, display Boyle’s imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity, and astonishing range. Here you will find the whimsical tales for which Boyle is famous, including “The Kind Assassin,” about a radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep. Readers will love the comedic drama of the title story, about a man who must contend with a vicious cat from Africa that he has won in a bet. And who could resist the gripping power of “Dogology,” about a woman who becomes so obsessed with man’s best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays. Boyle here proves once again that he is “a writer who can take any topic and spin a yarn too good to put down” (Men’s Journal).

His many and varied novels are part of the American literary landscape-but one of the best ways to appreciate T.C. Boyle is through his richly imagined short fiction. Boyle''s kaleidoscopic humor and wit, his keen, unforgiving take on American life, and his all-too-human protagonists all contribute to making his a unique voice. Here is a collection of classic Boyle stories (including the O. Henry Award-winning "The Love of My Life") that will speak directly to teenagers-and those who remember their teenage selves. Book jacket.

A virginal man with a beautiful wife accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a charming professor whose life''s calling is sex.

A virginal man with a beautiful wife accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a charming professor whose life''s calling is sex.