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After the Plague:and Other Stories
[Paperback - 2002]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Humorous Fiction - Short Stories
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780142001417 | Pages: 320
Shipping Weight: .269 | Dimensions: 5 x .69 x 7.7 inches

One of the acknowledged masters of the short story gives readers a gripping ride through narratives that shock, compel, and always entertain.
 
Few authors in America write with such sheer love of 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 16 tales 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, this collection will delight readers in search of the latest news of the chaotic, disturbing, and achingly beautiful world in which we live.

“Fine, vigorous short stories . . . this is a writer who can take you anywhere.”—The New York Times
 
“Uproarious and unforgiving.”—The New Yorker
 
“In an age of war where the foe is indistinct and difficult to identify, Boyle has become both the poet and the prophet of our time.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“Reads like a flip through the A-section of the newspaper . . . a vivid collage of millennial American life.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Boyle's imagination and zeal for storytelling are in top form here."—Publishers Weekly

T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel,World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been aProfessor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short storyGreasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.

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