RELIVE BX & OTHER STORIES - Softcover

Boyle, Tc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062673459 ISBN 13: 9780062673459

Publisher: EccoPress, 2018

Synopsis

While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle''s sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an inimitable voice. From the collection''s title story, featuring a Halcom X1520 Relive Box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past to "The Five-Pound Burrito," the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection speak to the humor, the pathos, and the struggle that is part of being human while relishing the whimsy of wordplay and the power of a story well told. In stories that span a variety of styles and genres, Boyle addresses the enduring concerns of the human mind and heart while taking on timely social concerns. The Relive Box is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling effort from a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society." (The New York Times)

About this title

About the Author

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, Worlds End, and the Prix Mdicis tranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

From the Back Cover

In The Relive Box and Other Stories, T.C. Boyle's first collection since he published two hugely influential collected volumes, his crackling wit and thematic range combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce his trademark "inventive and often crushingly comic" (NPR) short fiction.

The Relive Box and Other Stories is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling book from someone the Boston Globe has said is "such a good storyteller it will probably take, as in Alice Munro's case, the Nobel Prize or retirement for us to realize what tremendous talent has laid right in front of our noses."

Edition details

• Publisher: EccoPress
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062673459
• ISBN 13: 9780062673459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272