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At the instigation of Vogelsang, a far-out entrepreneur, Felix, his friend Phil Cherniske, and Phil's housemate, a two-hundred-pound barbarian known as Gesh, set out to grow a crop of sinsemilla in the hills of northern California
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"A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged."
- The Los Angeles Times
"Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Boyle's characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed."
- The Dallas Morning News
"In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp."
- The Seattle Times
Praise for Budding Prospects
-A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged.-
- The Los Angeles Times
-Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong.-
- The New York Times Book Review
-Boyle's characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed.-
- The Dallas Morning News
-In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp.-
- The Seattle Times
Praise for Budding Prospects "A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged."
- The Los Angeles Times "Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong."
- The New York Times Book Review "Boyle's characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed."
- The Dallas Morning News "In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp."
- The Seattle Times
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"A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged."
- The Los Angeles Times
"Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Boyle's characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed."
- The Dallas Morning News
"In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp."
- The Seattle Times
Praise for Budding Prospects
-A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged.-
- The Los Angeles Times
-Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong.-
- The New York Times Book Review
-Boyle's characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed.-
- The Dallas Morning News
-In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp.-
- The Seattle Times
Praise for Budding Prospects "A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged."
- The Los Angeles Times "Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong."
- The New York Times Book Review "Boyle's characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed."
- The Dallas Morning News "In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp."
- The Seattle Times
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than one hundred short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for this third novel, World's End, and the Prix Medicis etranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995. His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0575034998
- ISBN 13 9780575034990
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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