Greasy Lake & Other Stories

Greasy Lake & Other Stories - Paperback

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Greasy Lake & Other Stories - Paperback

Greasy Lake & Other Stories - Paperback

by T. C. Boyle
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Book Overview

by T. C. Boyle (Author)

Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen "fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live" (The New York Times)--from the award-winning author of The Tortilla Curtain.

"Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review

In "The Hector Quesadilla Story," T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in "All Shook Up," he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in "On for the Long Haul," he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.

Author Biography

T. C. Boyle is a novelist and regular contributor to The New Yorker. His novels include World's End and The Tortilla Curtain, and he has also published numerous collections of short stories. A Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Barbara.

Number of Pages: 229
Dimensions: 0.53 x 7.73 x 5.09 IN
Publication Date: May 06, 1986
ISBN9780140077810
Author T. C. Boyle
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 1986
LanguageENG- English
Pages229
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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