New Releases by T. Coraghessan Boyle

La colección de relatos definitiva de un maestro de las distancias cortas: un clásico moderno desternillante que consagra a T. C. Boyle como uno de los grandes narradores estadounidenses de nuestra era. Un chef atormentado por una crítica gastronómica, un asalto nocturno a una granja de pavos, una casa llena de ardillas lisiadas, un joven que sale de fiesta con Jane Austen. Esta colección reúne todo lo que, a lo largo de muchas décadas, ha pasado por la mente caótica, imprevisible y absolutamente brillante de T. C. Boyle. Estamos ante uno de los grandes maestros contemporáneos de la narrativa estadounidense, insuperable a la hora de tejer situaciones disparatadas y situar a sus personajes al límite de la cordura. Cada cuento nos ofrece un colorido desfile de criaturas maniáticas, excéntricas, frustradas, egoístas y, a fin de cuentas, tan humanas como cualquiera de nosotros. A través de una sátira fresca y desvergonzada, Boyle retrata con certera acidez una sociedad que solo se puede explicar a través del sinsentido. CRÍTICA «La obra más seria de Boyle: mordaz, mundana e irreverente.» —Publishers Weekly «700 llamativas e ingeniosas páginas de acrobacias estilísticas y morales.» —The New York Times «Imaginación feroz y deliciosa» —Los Angeles Times Book Review «Es un escritor satírico, por supuesto, con un ojo mortífero para las modas y las pretensiones, pero sobre todo un inventor cuyas extravagantes premisas narrativas rinden homenaje al espíritu de Groucho Marx y a los ejemplos de predecesores como el fantasioso británico John Collier y nuestros propios Donald Barthelme y Robert Coover» —Kirkus Reviews

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.

An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; ''Boyle''s prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along'' (Daily Telegraph)It''s 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star''s private zoo. It is the last one in southern California and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as an eco-terrorist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he''s just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle''s story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future

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.

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

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 spaceship from the Arizona desert, Linda knows she can survive under its glass dome. Competition is fierce between the hopefuls, among them smooth-talking PR man Ramsay, and Dawn, a naïve beauty. All are certain that they would never, ever, break closure before two years are up - unlike their discredited predecessors.Inside this humid microcosm, the terranauts'' labours over crops and livestock, their battles with creepy crawlies, their hostilities and sexual dalliances are all observed by the tourists who come to gawp, Mission Control''s cameras and the watchful eye of the media. As the crew struggles to control nature, and hunger sets in, the snake in this Eden starts to look unmistakably human.Inspired by real-life events, The Terranauts is a darkly comic, acutely insightful story of human behaviour, animal instincts, idealism and ambition. Placing utopian visions and individual motives under the microscope, this is T. C. Boyle at his acerbic, pitch-perfect best.

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten''s military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee''s unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter.

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.

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.

Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures. By the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of World''s End. 75,000 first printing.

A tale inspired by the life of Frank Lloyd Wright is presented from the perspectives of four very different women who loved him and offers insight into the eminent architect''s enduring struggles against conventional boundaries. 75,000 first printing.

Deaf Dana Halter is falsely arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, while William Wilson has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense. Dana and her boyfriend Bridger set out to track him down.

''The Inner Circle'' has characters, plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of documenting..... well, almost.|HC

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.

Californie, 2025. L''effet de serre, les pluies acides et les épidémies ont fait disparaître les principaux mammifères et ont ravagé la planète. Ty Tierwater, " écoguerrier " des années 80, dirige une ménagerie d''animaux en voie d''extinction. À 76 ans, il soigne tant bien que mal les derniers spécimens de grands fauves, lorsque Andrea, son ex-femme, débarque à l''improviste. Ty replonge douloureusement dans ses souvenirs. Il se rappelle ses années de militantisme au sein de l''association " La Terre pour Toujours " et les excès dans lesquels Andrea l''a souvent entraîné. Comment passe-t-on du stade de consommateur sans conscience politique à celui d''écoterroriste qui affirme haut et fort qu''" être un ami de la terre, c''est avant tout être un ennemi du peuple " ? Newsweek présente T. C. Boyle comme " l''écrivain contemporain le plus imaginatif de tous les États-Unis ". Avec Un ami de la terre, il a choisi un mélange détonant d''idéalisme et de satire. Plus qu''une fable écologique, voire prophétique, ce roman est une exploration des loufoqueries humaines et une critique décapante de l''uniformisation qui nous menace...

Ambientada en el valle de Hudson, esta obra abarca trescientos años de historia en los que se entrelazan los destinos de varias familias. En el siglo XVII los Van Brunt, humildes granjeros procedentes de Nueva Zelanda, se enfrentan a los Van Wart, ricos c

The author''s sixth collection of short stories displays his wide-ranging interests in everything from abortion doctors to air rage.

A quarter century of stories, including new gems, from the author of the nationally bestselling "Riven Rock".

In his most fully realized and compassionate novel to date, T.C. Boyle transforms two characters straight out of history into rich, mythic creations whose tortured love and epic story is intimate enough to break our hearts. Wed to Stanley McCormick, a schizophrenic sexual maniac, Katherine Dexter struggles to cure him while he is locked up in his Santa Barbara mansion and forbidden the mere sight of a woman--above all, his wife.