New Releases by T. Coraghessan Boyle

From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change. "Boyle has long been one of the most exciting and intelligent storytellers in the United States." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

Un voyage troublant dans une Amérique hantée par le démon de la violence et de la folie. Un roman contemporain et plein de suspense qui offre des pages magistrales sur l''épopée de Colter à travers les terres indiennes. Une plongée dans la psyché américaine à travers la rencontre de trois êtres blessés par la vie et les relations conflictuelles entre un père et son fils. "Un formidable roman sur les obsessions de l''Amérique." Voici "Un roman décapant." Elle "En refermant le livre, on est éberlué, secoué, en état de choc. Du nihilisme comme morale littéraire, avec l''humour pour seul remède." Le Figaro littéraire

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten''s military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee''s unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter.

Mi sono seduto e ho aperto Se il fiume fosse whisky e l''ho finito tutto, poi ho alzato gli occhi e ho scoperto che il mio aereo era partito. T. Coraghessan Boyle è uno degli scrittori piú coinvolgenti, appassionanti, spiritosi, fuori di testa che mi sia capitato di leggere. Ha un unico difetto: può produrre dipendenza. Niccolò Ammaniti

A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. Giant men are kept in cages to ensure their nightly service to their country. A man develops an unhealthy interest in his recently deceased reclusive rock-star neighbour. And on Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo a terrible and tragic event occurs.These stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in an enthralling collection.

1797. Dans une forêt du Languedoc, des chasseurs capturent un garçon errant, nu et hirsute. Qui est-il, cet "enfant sauvage", aussi dépourvu, semble-t-il, d'âme et de raison qu'une bête ? Après avoir été exhibé tel un monstre de foire, il est finalement abandonné à son incurable sauvagerie. Seul le docteur Itard s'entête à croire que de cet "animal" il saura faire un homme. Des années durant, l'enfant, rebaptisé Victor, va subir l'apprentissage de la civilisation sous la férule de son maître. Dans ce récit, bref et intense, T. C. Boyle s'empare de la célèbre histoire de Victor de l'Aveyron, qui inspira aussi l'un de ses plus beaux films à François Truffaut. Inhabituellement bref et émouvant, L'Enfant sauvage voit le satiriste enragé se muer en poète et trouver dans l'empathie un antidote à sa coutumière causticité.

From the New York Times bestselling author, a haunting historical novel about three generations of women living on a tiny, desolate island.

The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures. By the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of World''s End. 75,000 first printing.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “riveting” (The Wall Street Journal) and “wonderfully entertaining” (The Boston Globe) account of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life, told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. “Boyle handles the big themes—Wright the genius battling an uncomprehending, philistine world and Wright the man loving and loathing his women—with extraordinary brio.”—San Francisco Chronicle Is it easy to live with a genius? Frank Lloyd Wright’s life was one long, howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. He never did what was expected, and he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Wright’s triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved: Olgivanna Milanoff, an imperious Montenegrin beauty who was a student of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff and was known by Wright’s apprentices as “the Dragon Lady”; Maude Miriam Noel, a passionate Southern belle with a mean temper and a fondness for morphine; the spirited Mamah Borthwick Cheney, tragically murdered at Wright’s Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin, with whom he had six children. T.C. 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.

As these two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment and a roof over one''s head."--BOOK JACKET.

A collection of short stories - from the psychological to the slapstick and from surrealism to satire.

A quarter century of stories, including new gems, from the author of the nationally bestselling "Riven Rock".

Fifteen satirical stories from a master of the art. In the title story a yuppie tries to impress a Russian immigrant with the consumer culture and finds himself outdone, "Big Game," is about a phony game ranch in California, and in "Carnal Knowledge," a woman convinces a man to liberate a turkey for Thanksgiving.

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Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg''s infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too. So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle''s wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."