The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II
This vast volume contains some of the best, funniest, bleakest, most unsettling short stories Ive ever read ... Incredibly good a book to savour * <i><b>The Times</b></i> * Complicated characters, like twists, are among the orthodox pleasures on offer here ... You dont feel cheated, reading Boyle while the head knows theres manipulation and artifice, the heart thumps * <i><b>Observer</i></b> * An important book that contains revelation, tension and beauty -- Philip Womack * <i><b>Daily Telegraph</i></b> * Boyle has a talent for describing events we may never experience with an arresting matter-of-factness. There is a thrill to this, and to not knowing where he will take us next -- Chris Power * <b><i>Guardian</i></b> * A sort of Frank Zappa of American letters Like the Beat writers before him, Boyle documents American life in the underbelly Boyle is incapable of writing a boring sentence ... he is a master of the short story form -- Ian Thomson * <i><b>Financial Times</i></b> * The master of edgy short fiction * <b>William Leith, <i>Evening Standard</b></i> *
T.C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of nine collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently San Miguel. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.