T. Coraghessan Boyle

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

The Tortilla Curtain

"It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression of going back to the land."--P. [4] of cover.

Drop City

a novel

The women

This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordy Dutch patrons, and yoemen.

A Novel

World's End

Water music

Twenty-five years of short fiction by the celebrated author of Riven Rock and The Tortilla Curtain are collected here, in an anthology that includes seven never before published in book form. Reprint.

The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle

T.C. Boyle Stories

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.

Werner Richter

World's End. Roman.

Ein Freund der Erde.

The road to Wellville

When the Killing's Done

The Shape of a Teardrop

Eine einsame Insel vor der Küste von Kalifornien, die für die einen die Hölle ist, für die anderen das Paradies: Die schwindsüchtige Marantha verschlägt es 1888 nach San Miguel. Während sie sich, geplagt vom rauen Klima, von Monotonie und Einsamkeit, dem Leben entzieht, schafft es Adoptivtochter Edith, dem tyrannischen Vater und der verhassten Insel zu entfliehen. Jahrzehnte später zieht Elise Lester dorthin und findet mit ihrer Familie ihr Glück. Die Presse in den USA feiert die Lesters mitten in der Weltwirtschaftskrise als Inbild vom Mythos der Pioniere, doch die Idylle trügt. Boyle gelingt es meisterhaft, in dieser großen Saga das Schicksal dreier starker Frauen lebendig werden zu lassen.

Roman

San Miguel

Tod durch Ertrinken.

Oriente, Oriente

Die Terranauten

Felix was a quitter: he quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up his paper round, turned his back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. Dropped out of college, side-stepped the army, abandoned school. Got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit work...

Budding Prospects

The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. By turns magical and moving, these tales showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the foremost living masters of the short story.

Wild child and other stories

In a rural backwater in Wisconsin lies the rambling estate of Taliesin. Here, tempestuous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside and fires have ripped through the wings of the house. Paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door, hounding for the latest scandal, the latest tragedy in this never-ending drama. For this is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature - arrogant and infuriating - and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. This is the story of the wives and mistresses who fall under Frank's spell. There is the delusional Kitty, his first wife, convinced that his affair with the defiant Mamah can't possibly last. There is Miriam, his crazed, demented second wife, hell-bent on wreaking revenge most public and most vicious after the bitter demise of their marriage. And there is Oglivanna, the Serbian immigrant, who waits with Frank in constant terror for the next wave of desolation from Miriam as she stalks them at every turn, unleashing a torrent of sheriffs, immigration officials, bankers, lawyers and journalists. Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, The Womenplumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a fascinating American icon.

T. Coraghessan Boyle

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