T. Coraghessan Boyle

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.

When the Killing's Done

A novel set in a grim near-future Southern California follows the adventures of an ecoterrorist whose efforts to save the planet unwittingly place his own family at risk.

A Friend of the Earth

In 1940, innocent young John Milk accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an Indiana University zoologist studying human sexuality, and takes part, along with his wife, in sexual experiments that become ever more uninhibited.

The Inner Circle

Deaf Dana Halter is falsley arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, while William Wilson has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense. Dana and her boyfriend Bridger set out to track him down.

A Novel

Talk Talk

A snobbish wife and her henpecked husband travel to Dr. Kellogg's spa in turn-of-the-century Battle Creek, where the youth-crazed affluent succumb to quackery. By the author of East is East. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

The Road to Wellville

A collection of 14 short works by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning and National Book Award-finalist author of World's End focuses on a theme of nature and includes in the title piece a retelling of the story of a feral boy who was captured in the forests of Napoleonic France.

Stories

Wild Child

The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war. By the National Book Award finalist author of Drop City.

San Miguel

A best-selling novel inspired by the life of Frank Lloyd Wright is presented from the perspectives of four very different women who loved him and offers insight into the eminent architect's enduring struggles against conventional boundaries. Reprint.

The Women

The author's sixth collection of short stories displays his wide-ranging interests in everything from abortion doctors to air rage.

After the Plague

Stories ranging from the farcical to the mythic present the doings and darings of an aging Latin ball player, an Elvis Presley look-alike, a survivalist, and other figures of our times

Greasy Lake & Other Stories

A collection of fourteen stories includes "The Kind Assassin," in which a radio shock jock sets a world record; "Dogology," in which an obsessed woman loses sight of her identity; and the title story, in which a man wins a vicious African cat in a bet.

Tooth and Claw

Felix is a quitter, with a poor track record behind him. Until the day the opportunity presents itself to make half a million dollars tax-free - by nurturing 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.

A Pastoral

Budding Prospects

Roman

Die Terranauten

Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, 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. When he receives a new plastic foot he is determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.

World's End

T. C. Boyle

Star has travelled to Drop City - 47 acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from society's constraints and to feel part of something important. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she discovers tensions and rivalries that threaten to split the community.

Drop City

This is a story of two cultures; one of Californian privilege, the other of Mexican poverty.

The Tortilla Curtain

Good Home

A young Japanese seaman jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and washes ashore on a barrier island inhabited by a strange mix of rednecks, descendents of slaves, genteel retired people, and a colony of artists. The result is a sexy, savagely hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations, mistaken identity, love, jealousy and betrayal. "An absolutely stunning work, full of brilliant cross-cultural insights".--The New York Times Book Review.

East is East

In a real-life love story retold by an award-winning author, early twentieth-century budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls for and marries Stanley McCormick, who shortly after the wedding is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac and confined to his family's estate of Riven Rock for the rest of his life. Reprint. Tour.

Riven Rock

Als experiment worden vier mannen en vier vrouwen na een strenge selectie voor twee jaar opgesloten in een enorme broeikas om te testen of de mens biologisch en sociaal in staat is te overleven in een kunstmatige biosfeer mocht het klimaat op aarde onleefbaar worden.

T. Coraghessan Boyle

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