{"product_id":"tc-boyle-stories-ii-isbn-9780143125860","title":"T.C. Boyle Stories II","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second volume of collected short fiction from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain, \u003c\/i\u003efeaturing fifty-eight short stories that “mix brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), including fourteen never-before-published tales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Whether he’s writing about survival in a wasted environment or people and animals coming unhinged, Boyle never fails to captivate, to deliver his ideas within the conveyance of first-class storytelling.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, T.C. Boyle’s stories map a wide range of human emotions. The fifty-eight stories in this volume, gathered from \u003ci\u003eWild Child, Tooth and Claw\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfter the Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, plus fourteen marvelous new tales, reflect his mordant wit, emotional power, and exquisite prose.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlong with the satires and tall tales that established his reputation, \u003ci\u003eT.C. Boyle Stories II \u003c\/i\u003eincludes stories speaking to contemporary social issues, from air rage to abortion doctors, and character-driven tales of quiet power and passion. Others capture timeless themes, from first love and its consequences to confrontations with mortality, or explore the conflict between civilization and wildness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBoyle engagingly tests his characters’ emotional and physical endurance, whether a group of giants being bred as weapons of war in a fictional Latin American country, a Russian woman who ignores dire warnings in returning to her radiation-contaminated home, a hermetic writer who gets more than a break in his routine when he travels to receive a minor award, or a man in a California mountain town who goes a little too far in his concern for a widow.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT.C. Boyle Stories II \u003c\/i\u003eis a grand career statement from a writer whose creativity knows no bounds.“Boyle’s stories mix brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics. . . . He holds nothing back.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[Boyle’s] thematic range is astounding: community life, science, and ethics, past as prologue the culture of surveillance. He’s a satirist, a social realist, a tale-teller, a dystopian, often by turns, sometimes all at once. . . . Whether he’s writing about survival in a wasted environment or people and animals coming unhinged, Boyle never fails to captivate, to deliver his ideas within the conveyance of first-class storytelling.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Boyle conceives all kinds of vivid situations and confidently inhabits men and women across a range of ages and ethnicities. . . . He is always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\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":46300748185829,"sku":"NP9780143125860","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143125860.jpg?v=1767737706","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tc-boyle-stories-ii-isbn-9780143125860","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}