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Talk Talk
Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out. But there has been a terrible mistake – she didn’t commit any of these crimes. She and her lover Bridger set out to clear her name and find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense.
The Inner Circle
In 1939 on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who, behind closed doors, is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his ‘inner circle’ of researchers, freshman John Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited…
Tooth and Claw
This collection of short stories finds Boyle at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.
After the Plague
After the Plague is a masterful collection of short stories – tales that superbly veer from the psychological to the slapstick, from surrealism to satire, once again proving him to be one of America’s most formidable writers
Drop City
Star has travelled to Drop City to be free from society’s constraints, but when the hippies decamp to the wilds of Alaska where they intend to live off the land, the group runs into trouble, unexpected friendships are made and dangerous enemies are born.
Riven Rock
Shortly after marrying Katherine, Stanley McCormick suffers a nervous breakdown, is diagnosed with a tormenting sex mania and is imprisoned in the forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. Stanley is confined for the next twenty years, yet Katherine remains strong in her belief that one day he will return to her whole.
World’s End
Walter is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speeding on his motorbike, until he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts and becomes determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.
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Novels
Drop City
The Inner Circle
Talk Talk
The Women
When the Killing’s Done
Riven Rock
The Tortilla Curtain
The Road to Wellville
World’s End
Budding Prospects
Water Music
A Friend of the Earth
Short Stories
T. C. Boyle Stories
Without a Hero
Greasy Lake
Descent of Man
After the Plague
The Human Fly
Tooth and Claw
Wild Child
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