It's 2025. Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop-star's private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a reality. In his youth...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
Tyrone O'Shaugnessy Tierwater, suburban drudge, is manager of an antiquated shopping centre in New York. His life is changed dramatically by his marriage to Andrea...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:275
Maverick, unpredictable and accomplished, T.C. Boyle has been called the 'trickster of American letters'. After the Plague is a collection of his short stories - tales that veer from the psychological to the slapstick...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
A collection of short stories that veer from the psychological to the slapstick, and from surrealism to satire. This collection covers 16 stories which flaunt Boyle's astonishing range...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
It's the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California devoted to peace, free love and living the simple...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:464
It is 1939. In the campus of Indiana University, the sexual revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is lecturing on human sexual behaviour with an explicitness that sends ripples of shock and yearning through his audience.
John Milk is one of the many students who are aflamed. Soon he becomes Kinsey's assistant...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:432
It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter...more details Format:Paperback Pages:468
The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerised. That night they were both deaf...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair a flame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerised. That night they were both deaf...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
In 1939 on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife...more details Format:Paperback Pages:355