Greasy Lake And Other Stories (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Boyle, T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140077812 ISBN 13: 9780140077810

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khruschev.

About this title

Review:

"Satirical fables of contemporary life, so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written by Evelyn Waugh as sketches for...'Saturday Night Live.' ...Indeed, the best of his stories not only make the reader see; they make the reader hear and smell and feel." --The New York Times

About the Author:

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140077812
• ISBN 13: 9780140077810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240