T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81489-3
Boyle has been developing a growing reputation among lovers of rich comic writing for his handful of previous stories and novels. But World's End is one of those dramatic leaps forward that show an accomplished writer ambitiously and successfully...
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T.C. Boyle. Ecco, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-234937-8
Boyle’s (San Miguel) hypnotic narrative probes the complexities of heroism, violence, power, and resistance. At its heart are ex-Marine and retired school principal “Sten” Stensen and his schizophrenic son, Adam, who arms himself against shadowy “hos
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T.C. Boyle. Viking, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-02624-1
On New Year’s Day 1888, the ailing Marantha Waters sails across San Francisco Bay to remote San Miguel Island with her second husband and adopted daughter in hopes that the fresh air will restore her health. Marantha and her family, city folk by...
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T.C. Boyle, Viking, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-02232-8
Boyle (The Women) spins a grand environmental and family drama revolving around the Channel Islands off Santa
Barbara in his fiery latest. Alma Boyd Takesue is an unassuming National Park Service biologist and the public face of a project to...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-670-87960-1
A premier practitioner of short fiction, Boyle (Water Music) gathers two decades worth of work in one volume of almost 70 stories, adding seven pieces (three previously unpublished) to the contents of his previous four collections. The entries are...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-670-87881-9
T.C. Boyle (for that is how the former T. Coraghessan now styles himself) has gone back into recorded American history again, as he did in The Road to Wellville, for his characters and story, embroidering as necessary with his knack for grotesque...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-84963-5
Most effective of the 16 technically ingenious and rudely funny, satirical stories in Boyle's fourth collection are the sketches of disaffected individuals who take refuge in hermetic surroundings, self-help programs, political causes and...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $22.5 (496p) ISBN 978-0-670-84334-3
Each time out, Boyle ( World's End ; East Is East ) aims for a new target, and this time he has hit the bull's - eye. Wellville is a rich plumcake of a book, full of ripely conceived characters, satire both broad and bitter, beautifully integrated...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (456p) ISBN 978-0-14-009760-3
``A triumph; resonant, richly imagined and written with unfailing eloquence,'' exclaimed PW of this saga of the Van Wart and Van Brunt families, which limns and links the Hudson Valley's early Dutch settlers, the Indians they displaced, and their...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-82690-2
The pleasure of pure storytelling makes Boyle's new collection of fiction a joy to read. The author ( World's End ) filters a diverse cast of characters through his witty, relentless narrative voice. Employing parody, social satire and traditional...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author . Viking $25.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-670-03005-7
If Boyle's progress as a novelist has been uneven—his more recent narratives have not managed to achieve the acclaim of 1990's East Is East—his talent for crafting amusing and startling short stories has never been in doubt....
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $24.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-670-89177-1
Mordantly funny and inventive, this take-no-prisoners novel revolves around a few of Boyle's favorite themes: obsessive hygiene, compulsive consumerism, uneasiness in the natural world and fear of technology. As the Vonnegutishly named Tyrone ""Ty""
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $15 (355p) ISBN 978-0-14-023828-0
Boyle's latest concerns two couples in Southern California--one a pair of wealthy suburbanites, the other illegal immigrants from Mexico. (Sept.)
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $16 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-017839-5
In Boyle's fourth collection of short stories, he depicts a variety of individuals in his usual style of satire and humor. (Apr.)
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $16 (496p) ISBN 978-0-14-016718-4
Boyle's wickedly funny spoof of the turn-of-the-century health spa craze is packaged in a 50,000-copy ``cereal boxed'' edition. (May)
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-029994-6
Depicting Lassie, Idi Amin, chimps and a Norse poet, ``Boyle has X-ray vision when he considers the incongruities of the way we live and the things we do. He manages to find weak spots, capitalize on them, build from them wild and absurd stories...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $16 (229p) ISBN 978-0-14-007781-0
As he portrays environmentalists, surrogate mothers and drug dealers, ``Boyle proves himself in this second story collection truly a master of that genre. Wide-ranging in subject and variously comic, tragic, poignant and horrific, the stories are...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author . Viking $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-03344-7
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THE INNER CIRCLE
T.C. Boyle
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author . Viking $25.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-670-03435-2
The threat of imminent demise—whether self-inflicted or from an ungentle Mother Nature—hovers in Boyle's seventh collection (after the novel The Inner Circle
). Ravenous alligators make a memorable cameo in "Jubilation," in...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author . Viking $25.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-670-03770-4
Bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award–winner Boyle recasts the battle of good and evil as an identity theft suspense story in his 11th novel (following The Inner Circle
). Dana Halter, a "slim, graceful, dark-eyed deaf woman of thirty-three,
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author . Viking $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-02142-0
The title novella in Boyles's ninth collection is as good as anything the prolific author of The Women
has written. Basing his story on the historical Victor of Aveyron, the feral child discovered in the wilds of France in 1797 and slowly...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author . Viking $27.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-670-02041-6
The genius of Frank Lloyd Wright was both magnetic and cruel, as evidenced by the succession of failed marriages and hot-blooded affairs depicted in this biographic reimagining that drills into Wright mythology and the dark shadows of the American...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author, Boyle T. C., Author . Viking $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-03172-6
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by , read by Grover Gardner. Blackstone $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-6063-6
Rising and falling in steady rhythm, soothing even when the story unsettles and surprises, Grover Gardner's voice is a fine instrument. He delivers a stellar rendition of Boyle's reimagining of Frank Lloyd Wright's tortured...
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author, Boyle, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-011950-3
In 16 short stories, the author filters a diverse cast of characters through his witty, relentless narrative voice. Notwithstanding a few throwaway tales, ``the pleasure of pure storytelling makes Boyle's new collection of fiction a joy to read,''...
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Louie Anderson, Author, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $20 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-83766-3
Rotund comedian Anderson, who frequently appears on late-night television, knows that ``fat jokes'' aren't funny. In examining the source of his addiction to junk food, he here expands his search for self-understanding begun in his first book, Dear...
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Thomas Boyle, Author, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-012706-5
Compelling despite its heavy-handed prose and many red herrings, Boyle's new police procedural benefits from its references to current events. (May)
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Thomas Boyle, Author, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-83019-0
Detective Francis DeSales of the Brooklyn, N.Y., Violence Task Force is destined for an explosive encounter with a killer in Boyle's ( Only the Dead Know Brooklyn ) compelling new police procedural. DeSales lives in fast-lane Manhattan with...
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Thomas Boyle, Author, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-81324-7
The apocryphal story of the black swine is taken by Boyle ( Only the Dead Know Brooklyn ) as a metaphor for the irrational elements that so terrified Victorian orthodoxy. A feature of the mid-Victorian era was the so-called ``sensation'' novel,...
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Thomas Boyle, Author, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author Viking Books $15.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-670-81325-4
Boyle's detective Francis DeSales and professor Tim Desmond collaborate on investigating crimes again, in this frighteningly suspenseful novel. The setting is the borough of Brooklyn, with a volatile citizenry ethnically and religiously mixed. When...
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