{"product_id":"greasy-lake-and-other-stories-isbn-9780140077810","title":"Greasy Lake and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eMythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)—from the award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in “All Shook Up,” he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in “On for the Long Haul,” he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.\"Satirical fables of contemporary life, so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written by Evelyn Waugh as sketches for...'Saturday Night Live.' ...Indeed, the best of his stories not only make the reader see; they make the reader hear and smell and feel.\" --\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. C. Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels include \u003ci\u003eWorld’s End\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has also published numerous collections of short stories. A Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Barbara.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304260260069,"sku":"NP9780140077810","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140077810.jpg?v=1767728454","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/greasy-lake-and-other-stories-isbn-9780140077810","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}