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T.C. Boyle stories II : the collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II / T.C. Boyle.

by Boyle, T. Coraghessan.

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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.

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Collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II

xxi, 918 p. ; 25 cm.

After the plague -- Tooth and claw -- Wild child -- A death in Kitchawank.

A second volume of short fiction--featuring fourteen uncollected stories--from the bestselling author and master of the form. The fifty-eight stories in this new volume, written over the last eighteen years, reflect his maturing themes. Along with the satires and tall tales that established his reputation, readers will find 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. The new stories find Boyle engagingly testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance, whether it's 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. Mordant wit, emotional power, exquisite prose: it is all here in abundance.

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