Tooth and Claw - Softcover

Boyle, T. C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747582963 ISBN 13: 9780747582960

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

Synopsis

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, deadbeats, and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.

About this title

Review:

`A master of structure, his stories beautifully engineered
machines which he spray-paints with graffiti' -- Independent

`Blackly comic, powerfully written collection ... striking' -- Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph

`Boyle is one of the reasons readers love short stories ...
Boyle's trademark taut writing, immediate intimacy, vivid language' -- E. Annie Proulx, Washington Post

From the Publisher:

Boyle was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award given for lifetime
achievement in the short story form

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0747582963
• ISBN 13: 9780747582960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304