Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (96 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing; Sound binding; Mild wear to covers and spine; Pages free of markings; A handsome copy, Good Plus.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: AS NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: AS NEW. First Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full alabaster-embossed rose-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 508. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . M, John Harrison's Review in the Guardian, (21 Oct 2016), noted in part: "ermetically sealed under three-eighths of an inch of armoured glass in the remote Arizona desert, Ecosphere 2 contains several artificial biomes, including savanna, a rainforest and a bijou sea with its own coral reef. Internal air pressure is controlled by vast mechanical lungs. Two thousand sensors gauge "everything from soil respiration to ocean salinity". The whole contraption burns thousands of kilowatt-hours of energy a day to support the eight human beings who live inside. Their aim? To survive for two years, sustained only by what they produce. Nothing in, nothing out.";Fri.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony.Amazon. This copy is in excellent condition as a Hardcover with no issues, Signed by Boyle on the title page, is a first printing with the excellent price-clipped cover. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. …

467 Seiten. Kartoniert. Sauberes Exemplar ohne Stempel und Anstreichungen. Sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: deu.

Paperback. Condition: Fine.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Condition: fine. Photo non contractuelle. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. London: Bloomsbury, 1996 UsedWELL READ & VINTAGE PAPERBACK EDITION PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE COVER SMALL TEAR ON FRONT COVER PAGES SLIGHTLY DISCOLOURED DUE TO AGE The Tortilla Curtain is a novel by US author TC Boyle, published in 1995 It is about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction In 1997, it was awarded the French Prix M?dicis ?tranger prize for best foreign novel. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing; Advance Uncorrected Proof Copy. SIGNED by the Pen/Faulkner Award-winning and National Book Award finalist author of WORLD'S END, to a letter written by Coraghessan, printed on publisher letterhead stationary, folded to the center, and laid in. Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger Prize, this critically acclaimed novel set in Los Angeles features an illegal immigrant couple hiding and trying to survive, and a middle class couple living in a gated community Some fading to the spine and cover borders, else tight, square, firm and very good plus in textured orange stiff-card wraps with black printed titles, decorative borders and proof copy box to the front cover and with black printed book and marketing information printed to the rear cover.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. Por extraño que parezca, en los albores del siglo, en Battle Creek, Michigan, se desarrollaban acontecimientos trascendentales para la humanidad. Allí tenía su centro de operaciones uno de los hombres más relevantes en la historia de los hábitos alimenticios de nuestro siglo John Harvey Kellogg, inventor, entre otras cosas, de los copos de cereales, los celebérrimos corn flakes. Pero el doctor Kellogg no se limitó a legar a sus semejantes tamaña maravilla fue además un apóstol, un cruzado, un adalid, un gurú de la vida sana -o al menos de lo que entendía como tal-, que escribió libros sobre el tema y puso en práctica en su famoso sanatorio -frecuentado por clientes tan distinguidos como Edison o Henry Ford- un tratamiento consistente entre otras cosas en unas severísimas dietas sin pizca de carne, una más que generosa aplicación de enemas y una estrictísima abstinencia sexual.nnEn semejante baluarte de la vida sana aparecen diversos personajes, como el matrimonio Lightbody, que acude en busca de salud y otras cosas menos confesables Charlie Ossining, que intenta abrirse camino en el negocio de los cereales matutinos, enfrentándose al todopoderoso Kellogg George, ferviente carnívoro y único hijo díscolo de los cuarenta y dos que adoptó -abstinencia sexual obliga- el inventor de los corn flakes, o el peculiar doctor Siegfried Spitzvogel, padre de la Die Handhabung Therapeutik, una sorprendente técnica de relajación genital, aplicada a poder ser con todo el personal en cueros.nnT.Coraghessan Boyle, que ya dio cumplida cuenta de sus dotes para la sátira y el disparate más desenfrenado en Oriente, Oriente se supera a sí mismo con esta nueva e hilarante novela, que ha sido llevada al cine por Alan Parker, con Anthony Hopkins como protagonista.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. SMALL CREASES TO EDGE OF COVER-FRONT R/H SIDE: Penguin Books, 1994 Used Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too So begins T Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end".…

Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used. Talk Talk is a 2006 novel by T. C. Boyle. It concerns a young deaf woman who becomes the victim of a credit card fraud and identity theft. When the police are unwilling to help, the woman and her boyfriend attempt to track down the criminal themselves.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. St Lucia: Granta Books, 1994 UsedPAPERBACK EDITION CREASES TO SPINE AND MARK ON FRONT COVER Twenty five years ago, TC Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlands to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: Bloomsbury, 2006 Used 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, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of objective enquiry Behind closed doors, he is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his 'inner circle' of researchers, Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Sydney: Penguin Books, 1988 Used Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history It will lead Walter to search for his lost father And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960's back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940's to the late seventeenth century, where the long-hidden secrets of three families--the aristocratic van Warts, the Native-American Mohonks, and Walter's own ancestors, the van Brunts--will be revealed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: Bloomsbury, 2009. Used. In a rural backwater in Wisconsin lies the rambling estate of Taliesin. Here, tempestuous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside and fires have ripped through the wings of the house. Paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door, hounding for the latest scandal, the latest tragedy in this never-ending drama. For this is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life- at once a force of nature - arrogant and infuriating - and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. This is the story of the wives and mistresses who fall under Frank's spell. There is the delusional Kitty, his first wife, convinced that his affair with the defiant Mamah can't possibly last. There is Miriam, his crazed, demented second wife, hell-bent on wreaking revenge most public and most vicious after the bitter demise of their marriage. And there is Oglivanna, the Serbian immigrant, who waits with Frank in constant terror for the next wave of desolation from Miriam as she stalks the mat every turn, unleashing a torrent of sheriffs, immigration officials, bankers, lawyers and journalists. Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, The Women plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a fascinating American icon.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. Used. On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle?s haunting new novel.Thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters arrives on San Miguel on New Year?s Day 1888 to restore her failing health. Joined by her husband, a stubborn, driven Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha strives to persevere in the face of the hardships, some anticipated and some not, of living in such brutal isolation. Two years later their adopted teenage daughter, Edith, an aspiring actress, will exploit every opportunity to escape the captivity her father has imposed on her. Time closes in on them all and as the new century approaches, the ranch stands untenanted.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. San Mateo, Calif: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2003. Used. Drop City is a 2003 novel by American author T. Coraghessan Boyle. The novel, set in 1970, describes the social evolution of a group of counter-cultural free spirits, not unlike the inhabitants of the real Drop City community in Colorado, from which the novel apparently takes its name. However, Boyle's fictional group initially live in California and later move to a remote part of Alaska, and the group shares many qualities with the real Sonoma County Morning Star commune. The novel was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award.…

Condition: very good. Photo non contractuelle. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Condition: Gut. 489 S. Schönes, ordentliches, gutes Exemplar. Mit Originalschutzumschlag. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

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Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Boyle T. Coraghessan Phébus - 01/12/1988 Livreslittératurelittérature Étrangère Référence : 9782859401092; 4,50 € Occasion · Très Bon État Superbe État Les Frais D'envoi Postaux, Ou Autres Seront Calculés, Au Plus Juste Sans Prise De Marge Du Vendeur Au Dessus De 500G Svp Par Mondial Relay Moins Onéreux Que La Poste Et Plus Fiable Quant Au Respect Physique Du Colis. Photo Non Contractuelle Envoi D'autres Photos Sur Demande. Retrait Possible Sur Paris 9E Et Département De L'oise Retrait Possible Chez Le Vendeur (60000).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: A&C Black, 2011. Used. 'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company might explain some of her zeal. With days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma's plan is in danger of sabotage. Dave LaJoy and Anise Reed, a pair of notorious environmental activists, are recognisable from a distance by his knotted dreadlocks and her flame-red cyclone of hair. Dave is an electronics salesman with barely-controlled rages.…