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After the plague: stories. Penguin, 2001.
In After the Plague, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes through an amazing array of subjects in a range of emotional keys.
Budding prospects: a pastoral. Penguin, 1984.
At the instigation of Vogelsang, a far-out entrepreneur, Felix, his friend Phil Cherniske, and Phil's housemate, a two-hundred-pound barbarian known as Gesh, set out to grow a crop of sinsemilla in the hills of northern California.
Descent of Man: stories. Penguin, 1979.
In these outrageous, hilarious stories by one of the most imaginative young writers of fiction today, Idi Amin presides over the Second International Dada Fair, the Yerkes chimp runs off with his female trainer, and a Norse poet tries to overcome bard-block.v.
Drop city. Penguin, 2003.
The members of the Drop City commune clash with Alaskan homesteaders who live near to where the commune has recently moved, as both groups struggle for love, nourishment, and shelter.
East is east. Penguin, 1990.
A young Japanese seaman, trained in the way of the samurai but inspired by America, jumps ship off the Georgia coast and ends up in a writer's colony, in a dark comedy of clashing manners, mistaken identity, and love.
A friend of the earth. Penguin, 2000.
A novel set in a grim near-future Southern California follows the adventures of an ecoterrorist whose efforts to save the planet unwittingly place his own family at risk.
Greasy lake and other stories. Penguin, 1985.
Stories ranging from the farcical to the mythic present the doings and darings of an aging Latin ball player, an Elvis Presley look-alike, a survivalist, and other figures of our times.
The human fly and other stories. Speak, 2005.
A collection of short stories about teenagers, including "Greasy Lake," "The Love of My Life," and "Heart of a Champion.".
If the river was whiskey. Penguin, 1989.
A collection of stories includes such diverse themes as a death-defying stunt man, a retired primatologist troubled by the "civilized" world, 1960s survivors "stuck" in that decade, and a freshly-marketed Ayatollah.
The inner circle. Penguin, 2004.
In 1940, innocent young John Milk accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an Indiana University zoologist who has taken up the study of human sexuality, and takes part, along with his beautiful wife, in a series of sexual experiments that become ever more uninhibited.
Riven rock. Penguin, 1998.
After marrying Stanley McCormick, brilliant son of the inventor of the McCormick reaper, Katherine Dexter, graduate of MIT, discovers after they do not consummate the marriage that he is a schizophrenic sex maniac who must be kept separate from women.
The road to Wellville. Penguin, 1993.
In 1907, Peekskill couple Will and Eleanor Lightbody, journeyed by train to the celebrated sanitarium of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (think cornflakes) in Battle Creek, MI., hoping to find a cure for their health and marriage. A comic tour de force and made into a 1994 Sony film with Matthew Broderick and Anthony Hopkins.
Talk Talk. Viking, 2006.
Deaf Dana Halter is falsely arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, while William Wilson has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense. Dana and her boyfriend Bridger set out to track him down.
T.C. Boyle stories. Penguin, 1998.
A collection of sixty-eight short stories written between 1972 and 1997 features three previously unpublished tales, including an American tourist's amorous adventures with a female boxer.
The tortilla curtain. Penguin, 1995.
The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
Tooth and claw. Penguin, 2005.
A collection of fourteen stories previously published in such magazines as The New Yorker and Playboy includes "The Kind Assassin," in which a radio shock jock sets a world record; "Dogology," in which an obsessed woman loses sight of her identity; and the title story, in which a man wins a vicious African cat in a bet.
Water music. Penguin, 1981.
Mungo Park, an actual Scottish explorer, teams with a London miscreant to chart the course of the Niger River in West Africa where they have almost every possible mishap.
Without a hero: stories. Penguin, 1994.
The fourth, critically praised collection of short stories by the author of The Road to Wellville brings together fifteen darkly comic tales about human frailty, including the title story about an ill-fated romance.
The women. Viking, 2009.
Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.
World’s end. Penguin, 1987.
Seventeenth-century Dutch settlers and contemporary Native Americans reveal several centuries of social and political experiments.
Source for synopsis- NoveList.
Bibliography in chronological order
- Descent of man, 1979.
- Water music, 1981.
- Budding prospects, 1984.
- Greasy lake, 1985.
- World’s end, 1987.
- If the river was whiskey, 1898.
- East is east, 1990.
- The road to Wellville, 1993.
- Without a hero, 1994.
- The tortilla curtain, 1995.
- Riven rock, 1998.
- T.C. Boyle Stories, 1998.
- A friend of the earth, 2000.
- After the plague, 2001.
- Drop city, 2003.
- The inner circle, 2004.
- Tooth and claw, 2005.
- The human fly, 2005.
- Talk Talk, 2006.
- The women, 2009.
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