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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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  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.> Lire la suite Fermer

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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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  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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  DROP CITY

  T C Boyle

  • Bloomsbury
  • 9781526608895

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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> Lire la suite Fermer

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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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  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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