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Descent Of Man:Stories
[Paperback - 1990]
t.c. boyle
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Humorous Fiction - Short Stories
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780140299946 | Pages: 240
Shipping Weight: .193 | Dimensions: 5.06 x .52 x 7.7 inches

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In seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, T.C. Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes romantically involved with a chimp; a Norse poet overcomes bard-block; collectors compete to snare the ancient Aztec beer can, Quetzacoatl Lite; and Lassie abandons Timmy for a randy coyote. Dark humor, delirious fantasy, and surreal satire come together in this collection that brilliantly expresses just what the "evolution" of mankind has wrought.

About the Author

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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