Boyle, T. Coraghessan

"When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it"--.

Presents a collection of thirteen short stories by best-selling author T.C. Boyle that are directed at teenagers and chronicle the unique experience of American life.

A fictional account of the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright as seen through the experiences of the four women who loved him.

Charts the lives of two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, who come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom on a desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California.

In Battle Creek, Michigan in 1907 people come in search of the magic pill to prolong life or the profit from manufacturing it. They find Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his dietary wisdom.

"Set in contemporary Northern California, "The Harder They Come" explores the volatile connections between three damaged people--an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover--as they careen towards an explosive confrontation."--OCLC.

A collection of fourteen short fiction stories from T. C. Boyle, including the title selection in which Victor, a feral boy living in France during the early nineteenth century, is captured while running through the forests, and others.

A historical novel based upon the lives of socialite Katherine Dexter, one of the first female graduates of M.I.T., and her husband, Stanley, heir to the McCormick fortune; telling the story of their lives after Stanley was institutionalized at Riven Rock with a psycho-sexual disorder that made him violent toward women.

Presents a collection of fourteen short stories by American author T.C. Boyle.