Books written by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  • The Best American Short Stories 2017
    The Best American Short Stories 2017

    Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

  • The Women
    The Women

    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 ...

  • After the Plague
    After the Plague

    This is a collection of short stories, from surrealism to satire, from the psychological to the slapstick.

  • Riven Rock
    Riven Rock

    This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age.

  • Greasy Lake & Other Stories
    Greasy Lake & Other Stories

    Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more...

  • East is East
    East is East

    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...

  • Water Music
    Water Music

    Mungo Park, based on a real-life African explorer, and Ned Rise, a scoundrel, pimp, thief, and cheat, travel about Africa and meet up with a varied assortment of characters--native and colonial, antic and dangerous

  • Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories
    Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories

    Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, DOUBLETAKES: PAIRS OF CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES gives students the opportunity to enjoy, through close reading and analysis, the works of some of the most recognized names ...

  • Drop City
    Drop City

    T.C. Boyle has proven himself to be a master storyteller who can do just about anything. But even his most ardent admirers may be caught off guard by his ninth...

  • The Inner Circle
    The Inner Circle

    In 1940, innocent young John Milk accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an Indiana University zoologist studying human sexuality, and takes part, along with his wife, in sexual experiments that become ever more uninhibited.

  • The Tortilla Curtain
    The Tortilla Curtain

    The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various ...

  • Wild Child: Stories
    Wild Child: Stories

    A collection of 14 short works by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning and National Book Award-finalist author of World's End focuses on a theme of nature and includes in the title piece a retelling of the story of a feral boy who was captured in ...

  • San Miguel
    San Miguel

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women's lives on a California islandOn a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of...

  • Riven Rock
    Riven Rock

    Geneva, 1904 - Newlyweds Katherine Dexter and Stanley McCormick stand for their picture on the grounds of Prangins, Katherine's chateau in Switzerland. She is twenty-nine, the first female graduate in...

  • Grün ist die Hoffnung: Roman

    Grün ist die Hoffnung: Roman

  • T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle. Volume 2
    T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle. Volume 2

    These fifty-eight stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in a masterful and entralling collection.

  • T.C. Boyle Stories II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle

    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 ...

  • San Miguel
    San Miguel

    This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel.Joined by her husband, a fiercely possessive Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha strives to persevere in the face of brutal ...

  • The Tortilla Curtain
    The Tortilla Curtain

    - Ungekürzte Ausgabe des sozialkritischen Romans von T.C. Boyle (deutsch "América") von 1995, aufbereitet als Englisch-Lektüre mit Zeilennummerierung, Vokabelhilfen und Kurzbiografie zum Autor für Sprachniveau C1.

  • The Tortilla Curtain: Teacher's guide

    The Tortilla Curtain: Teacher's guide