After the Plague: and Other Stories
- ISBN-10
- 110157383X
- ISBN-13
- 9781101573839
- Series
- After the Plague
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-12-31
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- T.C. Boyle
Description
Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here address everything from air rage to abortion doctors to first love and its consequences. The collection ends with the brilliant title story, a whimsical and imaginative vision of a disease-ravaged Earth. Presented with characteristic wit and intelligence, these stories will delight readers in search of the latest news of the chaotic, disturbing, and achingly beautiful world in which we live. "Boyle's imagination and zeal for storytelling are in top form here."—Publishers Weekly
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