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In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can’t adjust to the “civilized” world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America’s most supple and electric literary inventors.
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Contemporary American Fiction: If the River Was Whiskey, Tom Coraghessan Boyle
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- Année de publication
- 1990
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- Abîmé
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- Titre
- Contemporary American Fiction: If the River Was Whiskey
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Tom Coraghessan Boyle
- Éditeur
- Penguin Books
- Publié
- 1990
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0140119507
- ISBN13
- 9780140119503
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Littérature contemporaine, Nouvelles, États-Unis, 20e siècle, Roman social, Littérature américaine
- Description
- In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can’t adjust to the “civilized” world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America’s most supple and electric literary inventors.