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T.C. Boyle stories : the collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle.

by Boyle, T. Coraghessan.

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Penguin Books, 1999, c1998.

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

9780140280913 (trade pbk.)

014028091X (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

TC Boyle stories

x, 691 p. ; 23 cm.

I. Love: Modern love -- Ike and Nina -- Sorry fugu -- Without a hero -- Heart of a champion -- Carnal knowledge -- Acts of god -- Hopes rise -- Descent of man -- Caviar -- All shook up -- I dated Jane Austen -- Caye -- Little fur people -- John Barleycorn lives -- The hat -- Whales weep -- A women's restaurant -- Thawing out -- Back in the Eocene -- Sitting on top of the world -- If the river was whiskey -- Juliana cloth -- II. Death: Big game -- Greasy lake -- Peace of mind -- King bee -- Sinking house -- The Devil and Irv Cherniske -- The human fly -- On for the long haul -- The 100 faces of death, volume IV -- Little America -- Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail -- The hit man -- Not a leg to stand on -- Green Hell -- Me cago en la leche (Robert Jordan in Nicaragua) -- The ape lady in retirement -- De rerum natura -- The extinction tales -- The fog man -- Drowning -- Rara avis -- The overcoat II -- Mexico -- III. And everything in between: Beat -- Hard sell -- The miracle at Ballinspittle -- Top of the food chain -- The Hector Quesadilla story -- We are Norsemen -- The champ -- Bloodfall -- Rupert Beersley and the beggar master of Sivana-Hoota -- The New Moon Party -- The second swimming -- Dada -- Two ships -- The little chill -- A bird in hand -- The Arctic explorer -- Rapture of the deep -- 56-0 -- The big garage -- Zapatos -- Respect -- Filthy with things.

Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range, richness, and exuberance. His stories have won accolades for their irony and black humor, for their verbal pyrotechnics, for their fascination with everything bizarre and queasy, and for the razor-sharp way in which they dissect America's obsession with image and materialism. Gathered together here are all of the stories that have appeared in his four previous collections, as well as seven that have never before appeared in book form.

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