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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140077812

ISBN-139780140077810

eBay Product ID (ePID)53369

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreasy Lake and Other Stories

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year1986

GenreFiction

AuthorT.C. Boyle

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.8 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN85-025993

Reviews"Satirical fables of contemporary life, so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written by Evelyn Waugh as sketches for...''Saturday Night Live.'' ...Indeed, the best of his stories not only make the reader see; they make the reader hear and smell and feel." -- The New York Times, "Satirical fables of contemporary life, so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written by Evelyn Waugh as sketches for...'Saturday Night Live.' ...Indeed, the best of his stories not only make the reader see; they make the reader hear and smell and feel." -- The New York Times

Dewey Edition19

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisMythic 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 of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khruschev., Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen "fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live " ( The New York Times )--from the award-winning author of The Tortilla Curtain . "Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language."-- The Los Angeles Times Book Review In "The Hector Quesadilla Story," T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in "All Shook Up," he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in "On for the Long Haul," he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.O932G7 1986