T. Coraghessan Boyle
22) Tooth and claw
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Fourteen whimsical tales, including The Kind Assassin, about a radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep. The title story, about a man who must contend with a vicious cat from Africa that he has won in a bet, and who could resist the gripping power of Dogology, about a woman who becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays.
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"'To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,' recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. 'They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.' Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced...
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