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In this explosive and timely novel, T. C. Boyle explores an issue that is at the forefront of the political arena. He confronts the controversy over illegal immigration head-on, illuminating through a poignant, gripping story the people on both sides of the issue: the haves and the have-nots. In Southern California's Topanga Canyon, two couples live in close proximity and yet are worlds apart. High atop a hill overlooking the canyon, nature wr...

Brilliant, incisive, and always engaging, T. C. Boyles short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

Brilliant, incisive, and always engaging, T. C. Boyles short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

T. C. Boyles account of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the voices of the four women who loved him, is a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

T. C. Boyles account of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the voices of the four women who loved him, is a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

Gathered into one volume, the first four short story collections of T.C. Boyle, winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short StoryT. 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 pyr...

En Espaol. When a freak accident brings together two couples from opposite sides of the tracks in Los Angeles, their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.

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Brilliant, incisive, and always engaging, T. C. Boyles short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history.It will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960's back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940's to the late seventeenth century, wher...

A National Park Service biologist on Californias Channel Islands believes invasive species must be eliminated because they are putting endangered native creatures at risk. But is it right to kill one species to save another?

A National Park Service biologist on Californias Channel Islands believes invasive species must be eliminated because they are putting endangered native creatures at risk. But is it right to kill one species to save another?

A National Park Service biologist on Californias Channel Islands believes invasive species must be eliminated because they are putting endangered native creatures at risk. But is it right to kill one species to save another?

Über das Wolfskind VictorIm Herbst des Jahres 1797, die Jahre der Revolution und des Terrors sind vorbei, stößt der Schmied des Ortes im Wald von Aveyron auf ein nacktes, seltsame Laute ausstoßendes Wesen, die Haut schwarz vor Schmutz, das Haar zottelig. Ein Mensch, ein Tier? Ein Knabe. Die Männer vom Dorf fangen ihn ein, bringen ihn in die Hauptstadt, nach Paris. Man führt ihn bei Hofe vor, er bekommt ein Zimmer in der Taubstummenanstalt und ...

Ein Freund der Erde ist ein Feind der Menschen - frei nach Ibsen kämpft Ty Tierwater, der Öko-Terrorist, gegen die Zerstörung der Umwelt. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2025. Der Treibhauseffekt hat voll zugeschlagen, in etlichen früheren Weingebieten wird inzwischen Reis angebaut. Die meisten Säugetiere sind ausgestorben, und das Essen ist auch nicht mehr das, was es einmal war. Ty Tierwater, militanter Ökoaktivist in den 80er Jahren, kümmert sich al...