{"product_id":"tooth-and-claw-isbn-9780143037439","title":"Tooth and Claw","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “fierce [and] funny” (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly) \u003c\/i\u003ecollection of fourteen stories exploring humanity’s wild side, from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Whether Boyle is breaking your heart or making you laugh, you just don’t care because he is so darned good at it.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe fourteen stories gathered here display Boyle’s imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity, and astonishing range. There are whimsical tales, including “Swept Away,” which tells of a female ornithologist who falls in love on the blustery island of Unst, and “The Kind Assassin,” about a bored and loveless radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep—and who may never sleep again. In the title story, a young man must contend with a vicious feral cat from Africa that he won in a bar bet. And in “Dogology,” a young woman in suburban New England becomes so obsessed with man’s best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMuscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, \u003ci\u003eTooth and Claw\u003c\/i\u003e is Boyle at his best.Tooth and ClawWhen I Woke Up This Morning, Everything I Had Was Gone\u003cbr\u003eSwept Away\u003cbr\u003eDogology\u003cbr\u003eThe Kind Assassin\u003cbr\u003eThe Swift Passage of the Animals\u003cbr\u003eJubilation\u003cbr\u003eRastrow's Island\u003cbr\u003eChicxulub\u003cbr\u003eHere Comes\u003cbr\u003eAll the Wrecks I've Crawled Out Of\u003cbr\u003eBlinded by the Light\u003cbr\u003eTooth and Claw\u003cbr\u003eThe Doubtfulness of Water: Knight's Journey to New York, 1702\u003cbr\u003eUp Against the Wall\"A dazzling new collection from a writer of \"roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales\" —\u003cb\u003eAnnie Proulx\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In T.C. Boyle's fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant.\" —\u003cb\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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":46300095873253,"sku":"NP9780143037439","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143037439.jpg?v=1767742819","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tooth-and-claw-isbn-9780143037439","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}