Wild Child SIGNED EDITION
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by T.C. Boyle
Short stories
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-670-02142-0
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T.C. BOYLE: The Women
In this collection of short stories, Wild Child T.C. Boyle has chosen as an epigraph Thoreau’s line “In wilderness is the preservation of the world” and indeed most of these stories address natural concerns or, in what has become a sub specialty of Boyle’s stories, nature run amok. The title story that closes the collection is Boyle’s own version of the classic Truffaut film, “L’Enfant Sauvage,” about Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France and turned over to doctors who attempt to civilize him.
There are many other treats as well, including, “La Conchita,” about a man who is attempting to deliver a human liver for transplant, only to get caught in a gigantic mudslide that wipes out the highway as well as a small coastal California town (and which was based on a real life 2005 mudslide in the town of the same name). “Thirteen Hundred Rats,” is about a lonely old man whose house is overflowing with rodents; “Question 62,” about what happens when a mountain lion starts to terrorize suburban California yuppies in their gardens, and “Admiral,” about a young woman who is charged with babysitting a cloned Afghan that cost his owners $250, 000. Each of these stories makes the reader just a little bit uncomfortable as Boyle asks us to remember that, civilized or not, we are all, human animals.
Brilliant, incisive and always entertaining, Boyle’s short stories showcase his mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that has made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
T.C. Boyle is one of those few writers who excel equally well at the novel and the short story. The New York Times, in a review of Boyle’s 2001 collection of short stories, After The Plague, described him as a “writer who can take you anywhere.” His most recent novel The Women, detailing the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the women he loved, received rave reviews and was on The New York Times bestseller list for two weeks. Boyle is also a writer who writes superbly both of urbanity and wilderness, and perhaps most evocatively, of the intersection of the two.
T.C. Boyle has written twelve novels, including World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Drop City, a National Book Award finalist, as well as eight short story collections. He lives near Santa Barbara, CA and teaches at USC.
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