New Releases by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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...

A collection of short stories - from the psychological to the slapstick and from surrealism to satire.

T.C. Boyle''s range as a novelist is breathtaking; he is the kind of writer who is always setting himself new challenges, who never ceases to astonish. In A Friend of the Earth, "America''s most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek) blends idealism & satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love & the survival of the species. A Friend of the Earth opens in the year 2025, as Tyrone O''Shaughnessy Tierwater ekes out a bleak living in southern California, managing a rock star''s private menagerie of the species "only a mother could love"--scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, & three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but very funny way, & most of the major mammalian species--not to mention fish, birds, & frogs--are extinct. Once, as we see in alternating chapters that flash back to the last two decades of the twentieth century, Ty was so seriously committed to environmental causes that he became an ecoterrorist & convicted felon. As a member of the radical environmental group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter, Sierra, & his wife, Andrea. Now, when he''s just trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms & winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. What happens as the two slip into a reborn involvement makes for a gripping, topical, & ever-surprising story that is certain to stir readers'' emotions. Gritty & surreal, frightening yet touching, A Friend of the Earth represents a high-water mark in Boyle''s career--his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with real compassion for his characters & the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect of his work.

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.

T. C. Boyle Stories gathers together in one volume all the work from Boyle''s four previous collections - as well as seven new tales previously unpublished in book form.

Et si l''amour n''était plus qu''un foyer d''infection, une maladie contagieuse ? Si l''ennemi, le danger, la fêlure se frayaient une voie vers nous malgré tous les systèmes d''alarme dont nous équipons nos maisons ? Et s''il nous arrivait, comme à cette critique gastronomique blasée, de perdre toute appétence dans un monde où il y a trop d''êtres et d''objets à désirer ? Grand écrivain de la nouvelle littérature américaine, T.C. Boyle, qui vit en Californie, s''attaque ici à nos névroses, nos peurs - et par là à nos ridicules - avec une verve pamphlétaire mêlant la caricature, le fantastique, la cruauté. Pourtant, à travers la fantaisie baroque d''un amoureux de l''excès, nous nous reconnaissons. Nous - ou ceux que nous sommes en train de devenir... Drôle, affreusement drôle, parfois capable d''une grande tendresse et aussi d''une mélancolie noire, Boyle est un satiriste virtuose. Un Swift à l''ère du rock''n roll. Michel Braudeau, Le Monde.

Fifteen satirical stories from a master of the art. In the title story a yuppie tries to impress a Russian immigrant with the consumer culture and finds himself outdone, "Big Game," is about a phony game ranch in California, and in "Carnal Knowledge," a woman convinces a man to liberate a turkey for Thanksgiving.

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Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg''s infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too. So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle''s wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."

Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists'' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations and mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal.

Eccentrics, charlatans, and decent, vulnerable people. You''ll find them all in this acclaimed collection of stories. From "Sorry Fugu", the tale of an improbable romance between a restaurateur and a food critic, to "The Little Chill", a chronicle of 60''s survivors in arrested development, these works are magical, surprising, haunting, and hilarious.

This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordy Dutch patrons, and yoemen. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle''s development from "a prodigy''s audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khrushchev. "Boyle is in absolute command," says The Detroit News, "wholly at home and always funny." Book jacket.

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 razor-sharp way in which they dissect America''s obsession with image and materialism. Gathered together here are all of the stories that have appeared in his four previous collections, as well as seven that have never before appeared in book form. Together they comprise a book of small treasures, a definitive gift for Boyle fans and for every reader ready to discover the "ferocious, delicious imagination" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society" (The New York Times). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Mungo Park, based on a real-life African explorer, and Ned Rise, a scoundrel, pimp, thief, and cheat, travel about Africa and meet up with a varied assortment of characters--native and colonial, antic and dangerous.