T.C. Boyle

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T.C. Boyle
- Grasset et fasquelle
- En Lettres D'ancre
- 8 Février 2023
- 9782246827009
À l'université d'UCSM, en Californie, un sujet est dans toutes les bouches : le passage à la télé du professeur Guy Schermerhorn et de son chimpanzé Sam - un singe pas comme les autres : il parle, Guy l'ayant initié à la langue des signes. C'est alors que, dans le hall, Aimee tombe sur un prospectus indiquant que le professeur cherche des étudiants pour l'assister dans ses recherches (comprendre : s'occuper de Sam). « Aucune expérience nécessaire, est-il précisé. Seulement de la patience et un dos à toute épreuve. » En effet, la tâche n'est pas de tout repos, ce dont peut témoigner la prédécesseuse d'Aimee, défigurée après une grave morsure. Mais la jeune étudiante s'en sort à merveille. Grâce à sa douceur maternelle, elle arrive à canaliser l'animal. Et puis elle lui change ses couches, lui donne le bain, répare ses bêtises, le câline, lui fait la cuisine - quand Guy ne commande pas des pizzas (le plat préféré de Sam). Voilà de quoi satisfaire le professeur : il a trouvé en elle la parfaite nounou. Et la parfaite petite-amie...
Cependant, une mauvaise nouvelle va mettre fin à cette idylle. D'après une étude qu'un certain Borstein s'apprête à publier, seuls les humains peuvent apprendre le langage, ce qui pousse le professeur Donald Moncrief - le grand manitou de la primatologie et à l'initiative de l'expérience menée par Guy - à mettre un terme à celle-ci. Il rapatrie Sam chez lui, dans l'Iowa, et l'enferme dans sa « grange aux chimps » sans autre forme de procès. Sauf que pour Aimee, Sam c'est toute sa vie. Et elle va tout faire pour le libérer.
On reconnaît ici l'humour grinçant si caractéristique du style de T.C. Boyle. Mais pour loufoque qu'il soit, ce roman n'en est pas moins sous-tendu par une réflexion métaphysique et éthique profonde : quelle est la frontière entre l'humain et l'animal ?

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Les terranautes

T.C. Boyle
- Le livre de poche
- 20 Octobre 2021
- 9782253237723
Que se passe-t-il quand on enferme huit scientifiques pendant deux ans dans une gigantesque biosphère sous verre, plantée quelque part dans l'immensité de l'Arizona, pour tester la résistance de l'être humain et sa capacité à vivre en autarcie ? On apprend à se jauger, s'appréhender ou s'éviter. Les complicités se font et se défont, les amitiés naissent et les haines, parfois, explosent. Il faut tenir, car rien ne doit ni entrer ni sortir, et assurer parfois le spectacle pour les sponsors du projet. Mais que faire lorsque la faim, le désir et le sexe s'invitent dans la bulle ?T. C. Boyle s'inspire d'une expérimentation réellement mise en place aux États-Unis dans les années quatre-vingt-dix pour recréer un huis clos infernal.Une satire magistrale de nos rêves de sociétés utopiques. Ce livre est sans doute l'un des plus accomplis qu'il ait écrits. Christophe Mercier, Le Figaro littéraire.C'est Orwell à l'heure des survivalistes et de la téléréalité. Didier Jacob, L'Obs.Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Bernard Turle.
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TALK TO ME

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury
- 26 Mai 2022
- 9781526630025
How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human?

Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show circuit with an unusual protege in tow: a chimp by the name of Sam. Sam lives in Guy''s apartment, wears diapers and neckties, devours pizza and Macdonalds - and, through Guy''s careful training, can communicate through sign language.

But living with Sam is wreaking havoc on Guy''s personal life, and when shy, meek undergraduate Aimee Villard volunteers to take on babysitting for him, he can''t believe his luck. Aimee and Sam have an immediate rapport, and before Guy knows it she''s moved in, proudly devoting herself to Sam''s care and Guy''s project.

Aimee has never known purpose and happiness like this; but when Guy''s funding is imperilled, and Sam is taken away by the sinister Moncrief, her world falls apart. Aimee discovers just how far she''ll go to, and just what she''ll risk, to be united with the chimp she''s come to love so much.>
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Histoires de couples

T.C. Boyle
- Grasset et fasquelle
- En Lettres D'ancre
- 10 Novembre 2021
- 9782246815471
T.C. Boyle, en maître incontesté de la forme courte, explore une grande variété de thèmes dans ce nouveau recueil. D'une plume acérée, il nous parle du monde d'aujourd'hui et de demain, des nouvelles technologie et d'écologie, mais toujours en portant une attention particulière aux couples. Ceux qui se forment par hasard quand on est voisins, ou ceux qui sont soumis à rude épreuve par une invasion de fourmis géantes. Certains profitent d'un tsunami annoncé pour se rapprocher, quand d'autres se désagrègent à cause d'une voiture volée et d'un chien disparu. D'autres encore doivent faire face au changement climatique qui menace leur survie. Les nouvelles de Boyle se situent au temps présent ou dans un futur proche, et les préoccupations intimes de ses protagonistes croisent des questions politiques et sociétales de manière toujours surprenante. Boyle possède une voix bien à lui, et les huit nouvelles rassemblées ici en sont une nouvelle et éclatante preuve.

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I WALK BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury
- 1 Septembre 2022
- 9781526631374
A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from ''one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today'' (Lionel Shriver) For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neighbour enter strike up a friendship that might a more sinister battle of wits than he first thinks. A man, waiting for his wife in a bar on Valentine''s Day, is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant.

In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters'' minds with a ventriloquist''s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.>
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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury
- 1 Janvier 2020
- 9781526604651
@00000327@One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)@00000133@ @00000327@ Chosen as a Book of the Year 2019 by the @00000373@Herald@00000155@ @00000133@It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to support their son, they are not the sort of people one would expect to be seduced by the nascent drug culture. But their nights on LSD prove so extraordinary - so revelatory, so earth-shattering, so downright seductive - that Fitzhugh and Joanie are soon captive to the whims of the charismatic and subversive Dr Tim.

Follow Fitzhugh and Joanie on their quest for transcendence, as sultry Mexican nights at Hotel Catalina give way to a ramshackle mansion in upstate New York, where thirty devotees - students, wives and children - play out the final act of a terrible, beautiful experiment.

Join us, won't you? It's going to be one hell of a trip.
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Relive box and other stories

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury
- 18 Octobre 2018
- 9781408890103
BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017 A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment.

In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses his unerring eye on humanity's relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning 'Are We Not Men?' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while 'The Relive Box' parodies our obsession with electronic games.

In 'She's the Bomb', a young woman waits on her graduation day, heart in mouth, for an explosive event. A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in 'The Five-Pound Burrito', but learns that success comes at a price. An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in 'The Argentine Ant', but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting. And in the chilling 'The Designee', a lonely widower can't believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England.

In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters' minds with a ventriloquist's flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.
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WOMEN

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury uk
- 1 Mars 2010
- 9781408800980
Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the tragedy.
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DROP CITY

T C Boyle
- Penguin books usa
- 27 Janvier 2004
- 9780142003800
It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of Drop City arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over ones head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyles ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous.
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WHEN THE KILLING''S DONE

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury uk
- 1 Mars 2012
- 9781408821701
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 campaigning to exterminate them once and for all, but her systematic plan is in danger of sabotage by two notorious environmental activists, Anise Reed and Dave LaJoy. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on the island of Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her rancher mother - the stakes are raised and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real...
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EAST IS EAST

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury uk
- 26 Septembre 1996
- 9780747529330
Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Terrifying one islander - literally - to death, and fleeing not only from the Immigration Agents but also an elderly lady convinced he is Seiji Ozawa, Tanaka is unwittingly caught up in a hilarious and irretievably complicated spider''s web of misunderstandings. His sole refuge on the island, the manipulative and ambiguous novelist Ruth Dershowitz, only draws him in ever deeper... ''Hilarious. A talented entertainer with a beady eye for the absurdities of culture shock.'' GUARDIAN ''Boyle has a fine descriptive eye and peoples the novel with wonderfully absurd characters.'' TIME OUT>
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BLUE SKIES

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury
- 1 Mai 2023
- 9781526659699
Welcome to America. On the east coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the west coast, California is engulfed with wildfire.

But for one family, the impending environmental disaster is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake; her pious brother Cooper is wrestling with a tic bite; and their mom Ottilie has resorted to cooking with crickets. Everyone is drinking too much - and the bugs seems to be disappearing. It seems as if it''s anything but blue skies ahead...

A delightfully dark comedy of manners about family life at the end of the world, Blue Skies is a masterful new adventure from one of the America''s great comic writers.>
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I WALK BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS - STORIES

T C Boyle
- Ecco press
- 13 Septembre 2022
- 9780063052888
An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops , a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit--it was there and it came for him." A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.
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STORIES - VOL 2

T.C. Boyle
- Penguin books usa
- 30 Septembre 2014
- 9780143125860
A second volume of collected short fiction--from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the authors first four collections to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II gathers the work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form as well as a preface in which Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories and the art of making them. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyles stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The fifty-eight stories in this new volume, written over the last eighteen years, reflect his maturing themes. Along with the satires and tall tales that established his reputation, readers will find stories speaking to contemporary social issues, from air rage to abortion doctors, and character-driven tales of quiet power and passion. Others capture timeless themes, from first love and its consequences to confrontations with mortality, or explore the conflict between civilization and wildness. The new stories find Boyle engagingly testing his characters emotional and physical endurance, whether its a group of giants being bred as weapons of war in a fictional Latin American country, a Russian woman who ignores dire warnings in returning to her radiation-contaminated home, a hermetic writer who gets more than a break in his routine when he travels to receive a minor award, or a man in a California mountain town who goes a little too far in his concern for a widow. Mordant wit, emotional power, exquisite prose: it is all here in abundance. T.C. Boyle Stories II is a grand career statement from a writer whose imagination knows no bounds.
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The Harder They Come

T C Boyle
- Bloomsbury
- 7 Avril 2016
- 9781408859957
A deep and disturbing meditation on the rootsof American gun violence, exploring the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far parents can be held accountable for the actions of their child. The son of a Vietnam veteran descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible to halt. From }New York Times{ bestselling author T.C. Boyle. Now in paperback
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TALK TO ME - A NOVEL

T C Boyle
- Ecco press
- 14 Juin 2022
- 9780063052833
From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy''s university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it. What if it were possible to speak to the members of another species--to converse with them, not just give commands or coach them but to really have an exchange of ideas and a meeting of minds? Did apes have God? Did they have souls? Did they know about death and redemption? About prayer? The economy, rockets, space? Did they miss the jungle? Did they even know what the jungle was? Did they dream? Make wishes? Hope for the future? These are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel Talk to Me , exploring what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person--or animal...
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THE RELIVE BOX - AND OTHER STORIES

T.C. Boyle
- Bloomsbury uk
- 5 Octobre 2017
- 9781408890134
BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017 A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment.

In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses hisunerring eye on humanity's relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning 'Are We Not Men?' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while 'The Relive Box' parodies our obsession with electronic games.

In 'She's the Bomb', a young woman waits on her graduation day, heart in mouth, for an explosive event. A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in 'The Five-Pound Burrito', but learns that success comes at a price. An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in 'The Argentine Ant', but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting. And in the chilling 'The Designee', a lonely widower can't believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England.

In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters' minds with a ventriloquist's flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.
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After the plague

Boyle Tc
- Bloomsbury
- 12 Octobre 2001
- 9780747553274
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Stories

Boyle Tc
- Penguin books
- 3 Mai 2001
- 9780140280913
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Histoires cruelles

Boyle-T-C
- Grasset et fasquelle
- 4 Juin 2008
- 9782246699118
Quiconque s'est déjà aventuré dans l'univers baroque, féroce et hilarant de ce magicien de la prose qu'est T.C. Boyle connaît bien sa propension à la cruauté... On ne s'étonnera donc pas de le voir, aujourd'hui, placer sous cette enseigne son nouveau recueil de nouvelles. Cruelles, ces histoires, parce qu'il y est souvent question de vies fracassées par un destin méchamment farceur, mais aussi de bêtes sauvages, d'animaux étranges venant bouleverser le cours de l'existence des malheureux héros de Boyle. Ainsi, dans « Toutes griffes dehors », un pauvre type à la dérive se retrouve, suite à un pari dans un bar, propriétaire d'une espèce de panthère, laquelle va méthodiquement réduire en miettes son appartement - et plus encore. Dans « Cynologie », c'est une jeune femme qui se prend pour un chien. Le lecteur est aussi convié à une ahurissante chasse à l'éléphant, au record du monde de l'insomnie, à la visite d'une petite communauté édénique montée de toutes pièces dans un parc d'attractions infesté de moustiques et de crocodiles, ou encore... à la fin du monde, tout bonnement, puisqu'une monstrueuse météorite surgit aussi au détour de ces pages. Mais la « cruauté » de l'écrivain n'est jamais gratuite ni mauvaise : il s'agit, avant tout, de savourer avec jubilation ces histoires inouïes, irrésistibles de drôlerie et d'originalité, dont Boyle a le secret. Et de découvrir, derrière l'extravagance, une méditation en vérité très incisive sur l'Amérique des ombres, des laissés-pour-compte et de la paranoïa ordinaire.
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Histoires sans heros

Boyle-T.C
- Grasset et fasquelle
- 7 Février 1996
- 9782246496816
Voici Bernard Puff, propriétaire d'un hôtel-ranch pour safaris près de Bakesfield en Californie, où vous pourrez dégommer du gros gibier sans connaître les désagréments d'un voyage en Afrique. Puis Susan Certaine, spécialisée dans les kleptomanies à tendance névrotique. Elle vous soulagera de tout ce qui vous encombre, y compris votre santé mentale. Et encore Wallace Pinto, un ado-beatnik. Ou la belle Alena Jorgensen, beauté glacée, libératrice des dindons élevés en batteries à la ferme Hedda-Gabler. Brillantes, exubérantes, acerbes et toujours hilarantes, les quinze nouvelles d'{Histoires sans héros} pétillent et crépitent, nous montrant, comme toujours chez Boyle, les travers de la société américaine.
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La belle affaire

Boyle Tc
- Phebus
- Litterature
- 1 Août 1991
- 9782859402082
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