Boyle, T. Coraghessan

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Talk talk

a novel
2006
Bridger's relationship with the deaf Dana is tested when she is accused of a long list of crimes she did not commit, and the couple set out to find the man who framed her and tried to destroy her life.

The inner circle

2004
A novel that examines the impact on a young man's marriage after he begins work as an assistant to sexologist Alfred Kinsey in 1940, taking part in the doctor's research.

Descent of man

1979
A mad, hilarious collection of short stories, wherein Boyle offers his unique view of dictators, animals, scientists, explorers, collectors, teetotalers, and others.

Budding prospects

a pastoral
1984
A comic novel which satirises our eternal quest for money, and our habits of addiction.

Drop City

2003
In 1970, a group of California hippies migrates to Alaska when the law begins to cramp their style, but soon their new home's harsh environment cramps it even more.

A friend of the earth

2000
Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater, a former environmentalist, finds himself caring for a rock star's collection of strange animals.

After the plague

stories
2001
A collection of sixteen stories, many of which have appeared in "The New Yorker" magazine, in which American author T. C. Boyle explores a range of contemporary social issues including air rage, abortion doctors, and first love and its consequences.

World's end

a novel
1988
This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth century to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordly Dutch patrons, and yeomen.

Water music

1983
While Mungo Park is embarked on the first of his two expeditions to chart the course of the Niger River, scoundrel Ned Rise is on his own outlandish career in London. He eventually becomes Park's Sancho Panza.

The women

a novel
2009
A fictional account of the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright as seen through the experiences of the four women who loved him.

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