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| Original Title: | Stories |
| ISBN: | 014028091X (ISBN13: 9780140280913) |
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Paperback | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 4.21 | 1535 Users | 96 Reviews
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T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. 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. Together they comprise a book of small treasures, a definitive gift for Boyle fans and for every reader ready to discover the "ferocious, delicious imagination" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society" (The New York Times).
Details About Books Stories
| Title | : | Stories |
| Author | : | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1999 by Penguin (Non-Classics) (first published December 1993) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Literature. Literary Fiction. American. Contemporary. Short Story Collection |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 1535 Users | 96 ReviewsPiece About Books Stories
My favorite collection of short stories, period. TC Boyle studied under John Irving, Raymond Carver, and John Cheever. Their influence really shines in his short stories, which are, at turns, clever, insightful, haunting, and linguistically transcendent. Boyle is known for being able to conquer any topic, any idea, and making it his own. Having read these 70 or so stories, I'd have to say the assessment is on target. Seek out Boyle's short stories, and if you like what you read, then invest inThank you, Penguin Books!70 short stories collected here by literary hipster and natural born killer storyteller, USA born and bred T. Coraghessan Boyle. What blast-off verbal orgasms, what sublime hallucinogenic hits of imagination, what shadow theater and laser lights of Love, Death, And Everything in Between - the three categories under which the stories in the collection are grouped. The question hovers: as a reviewer, how to do justice to these T. C. totally cockeyed boiling Boyle tales? A
My favorite collection of short stories, period. TC Boyle studied under John Irving, Raymond Carver, and John Cheever. Their influence really shines in his short stories, which are, at turns, clever, insightful, haunting, and linguistically transcendent. Boyle is known for being able to conquer any topic, any idea, and making it his own. Having read these 70 or so stories, I'd have to say the assessment is on target. Seek out Boyle's short stories, and if you like what you read, then invest in
This one comes in at nearly 700 pages. That's a lot of short stories. Boyle tosses out similes and metaphors with a flair unparalleled, juicing up his descriptions and his general story telling with cinematic zeal.It amazes me, sometimes, that the whole feel of a good story can be whittled down so fine that it takes up so little space for the telling while keeping its subtlest essence.
Best/funniest/most humorous short story writer on the planet. My friend Mark and I became obsessed with him last summer and read tons of T.C. Boyle stories aloud to each other all summer long. Excellent for silent reading too. :) My personal faves in this collection include: "56-0" and the first story of the collection (name which I can't recall), which is about a body condom. Hmph. Some reviewer I am!
This 700 page volume is quite extensive but it's major flaw is also in some ways it's best asset and that is just that Boyle is sort of all over the place. He ventures into the heads of people all over the US and beyond, traveling into the head of a Russian, and a Norseman in Ireland. He takes you to Spain and to Mexico. At the same time, though the variety is nice and makes for a more interesting read overall, one can't help wondering why Boyle didn't stick with what he knew best. In any case,
T.C. Boyle amazes because he is not only a prolific short story writer--one of astounding range and fearlessness--but ALSO a prolific novelist. Pick just one of those genres and he has enough works to match the output of most other authors; then you realize he has that in TWO genres, and you just kind of fall silent for a bit. This nearly 700-page volume (1998) contains the first four short story collections plus some new stories. I have to say, it contains enough truly excellent stories to make
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