T.C. Boyle Stories.Vol.2
The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle
(Sprache: Englisch)
T.C. Boyles blazingly inventive imagination, his flair for entertaining and moving his readers, and his sheer love of story and language are perhaps nowhere better displayed than in his celebrated short fiction. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together...
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T.C. Boyles blazingly inventive imagination, his flair for entertaining and moving his readers, and his sheer love of story and language are perhaps nowhere better displayed than in his celebrated short fiction. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the authors first four collections to critical acclaim.
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A second volume of collected short fiction-from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short StoryFew authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the author's first four collections to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II gathers the work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form as well as a preface in which Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories and the art of making them.
By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. 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. T.C. Boyle Stories II is a grand career statement from a writer whose imagination knows no bounds.
Autoren-Porträt von T. C. Boyle
T. C. Boyle is a novelist and regular contributor to The New Yorker. His novels include World’s End and The Tortilla Curtain, 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: T. C. Boyle
- 2014, 944 Seiten, Masse: 15,4 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0143125869
- ISBN-13: 9780143125860
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Boyle s stories mix brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics. . . . He holds nothing back. Los Angeles Times[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. San Francisco Chronicle
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. The New York Times Book Review
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