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Tooth and Claw : And Other Stories by T. C. Boyle (2006, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143037439

ISBN-139780143037439

eBay Product ID (ePID)51079609

Product Key Features

Book TitleTooth and Claw : and Other Stories

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General

GenreFiction

AuthorT.C. Boyle

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Reviews"A dazzling new collection from a writer of "roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales" - Annie Proulx , The Washington Post "In T.C. Boyle''s fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant." - Entertainment Weekly, "A dazzling new collection from a writer of "roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales" -- Annie Proulx , The Washington Post "In T.C. Boyle's fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant." -- Entertainment Weekly, "A dazzling new collection from a writer of "roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales" - Annie Proulx , The Washington Post "In T.C. Boyle's fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant." - Entertainment Weekly

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Grade ToUP

Table Of ContentTooth and ClawWhen I Woke Up This Morning, Everything I Had Was Gone Swept Away Dogology The Kind Assassin The Swift Passage of the Animals Jubilation Rastrow's Island Chicxulub Here Comes All the Wrecks I've Crawled Out Of Blinded by the Light Tooth and Claw The Doubtfulness of Water: Knight's Journey to New York, 1702 Up Against the Wall

SynopsisThese 14 stories, which have appeared in "The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's" and "Playboy" display Boyle's imaginative muscle and range., A "fierce [and] funny" ( Entertainment Weekly) collection of fourteen stories exploring humanity's wild side, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain "Whether Boyle is breaking your heart or making you laugh, you just don't care because he is so darned good at it."-- San Francisco Chronicle The fourteen stories gathered here display Boyle's imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity, and astonishing range. There are whimsical tales, including "Swept Away," which tells of a female ornithologist who falls in love on the blustery island of Unst, and "The Kind Assassin," about a bored and loveless radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep--and who may never sleep again. In the title story, a young man must contend with a vicious feral cat from Africa that he won in a bar bet. And in "Dogology," a young woman in suburban New England becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best., Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man , appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; "Dogology," about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and "The Kind Assassin," which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock's quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best., Since his first collection of stories, "Descent of Man," appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; Dogology, about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and The Kind Assassin, which explores the consequences of a radio shock jocks quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, "Tooth and Claw" is Boyle at his best. BACKCOVER: A dazzling new collection from a writer of roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales Annie Proulx, "The Washington Post" In T.C. Boyles fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant. "Entertainment Weekly"