T.C. Boyle Collection 8 Titles

T.C. Boyle A Friend of the Earth

From the book: ".... It was the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals - not to mention fish, birds, and frogs - are extinct.  Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love" - scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions...."   Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group 2001 ISBN-100141002050 

ISBN-139780141002057

T.C. Boyle Talk Talk

From the book: "It was not until their first date that Bridger Martin learned that Dana Halter's deafness was profound and permanent. By then he was falling in love. Now she is in a courtroom, accused of assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, among other things.  As Dana and Bridger eventually learn, William "Peck" Wilson has stolen Dana's identity and has been living a blameless life of ciminal excess at her expense. And as they set out to find him, they begin to test to its very limits the life they have begun to build together.  Both a suspenseful chase across America and a moving story about language, love and identity..."  Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 2007  ISBN 9780143112150

T.C. Boyle Tooth and Claw and Other Stories

From the book: "Tooth and Claw is a dazzling new collection of short stories from a writer who has put his wild andoriginal steamp on the American story. ... Here are stories about the conflict between civilization and wildness, all todl with intoxicating wit and the authority of a whip. "  Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 2006  ISBN 9780143037439

 T.C. Boyle Wild Child and Other Stories

From the book: ".... The fourteen new stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle.  From "Wild Child," a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France, to "La Conchita," the tale of a catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his own humanity, these tales are by turns magical and moving, showcasing the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made Boyle one of the foremost living masters of the short story."  Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 2011 ISBN 9780143118640   

T.C. Boyle The Tortilla Curtain

From the book: ".... Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course.  Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to the vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding."  Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 1996  ISBN 9780140238280

T.C. Boyle World's End

From the book: ".... Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history...."  Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 1990  ISBN 9780140299939

T.C. Boyle Riven Rock

From the book: ".... In Riven Rock, T.C. Boyle transforms two real people from the pages of American history into rich mythic creations whose tortured love and epic story is intimate enough to break our hearts...."  Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 1999  ISBN 9780140271669

 T.C. Boyle The Women: A Novel

From the book: ".... Boyle's incomparable account of (Frank Lloyd) Wright's life, as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, blazes with trademark wit and inventiveness.  Olgivanna, the Montenegrin beauty; Maude Miriam, the passionate Southern belle; Mamah, spirited and tragic; and, his first wife, Kitty Tobin.  Boyle deftly captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a sexy, gripping drama about marriage, the bargains men and women make, and the privileges and pitfalls of genius and fame..." Publisher Penguin Publishing Group 2009  ISBN 9780143116479