T. C. Boyle

An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (Daily Telegraph)It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as an eco-terrorist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future

Una ópera barroca desbordante que marcó el debut de T. C. Boyle: una novela que nos lanza de cabeza a un siglo XVIII mugriento, sensual, lleno de sangre, mosquitos y pólvora.Año 1795. Jorge III empieza a perder la razon en las estancias de Windsor, Goya se repliega en su sordera y Beethoven estrena en Viena su segundo concierto para piano. Mientras tanto, en Escocia, un joven medico sin experiencia llamado Mungo Park se embarca hacia Africa con la obsesion de trazar el curso del misterioso rio Niger. Heroe iluminado, lo acompaña un esclavo mandinga versado en latin y griego con quien habra de zafarse de emires que les quieren sacar los ojos, soportar virulentas fiebres y huir de reyes africanos que dictan sentencia entre extraños rituales. En su deambular se cruzara con el picaro Ned Rise, carterista, cantante de taberna, poeta de burdel, saqueador de tumbas y alma atormentada. Uno busca la gloria en las fuentes del Niger. El otro, sobrevivir una noche mas sin que lo maten, lo deporten o lo embalsamen por error. Juntos, en una travesia tan absurda como epica, atravesaran los cenagales de la civilizacion, desde los muelles infectos del Londres georgiano hasta los confines indescifrables del Africa interior donde los mapas empiezan a mentir.CRITICAUna novela dotada de un endiablado sentido del humor y la peripecia.Rodrigo Fresan,El CulturalDesternillante, hilarante, exotica: un apasionante vuelo de la imaginacion literariaLos Angeles TimesMusica acuatica es a la literatura lo que Indiana Jones es al cine... Boyle es un conspirador experto, un humorista enloquecido y un narrador feroz.The Boston GlobeAlta ficcion comica... Boyle es un escritor de considerable talento. Lleva a cabo sus invenciones mas inverosimiles con ingenio, un perfecto sentido de la oportunidad y sus considerables dotes linguisticas.The Washington PostT. C. Boyle es un autor de una astucia y una curiosidad desbordantes.Annie Proulx

An einem Marztag 1946 schippert Beverly mit Ehemann Till und dessen Bruder vorder wilden Sudkuste Kaliforniens. Sie wollen in der Nahe der Inseln vor dem Santa-Barbara-Kanal angeln. Doch dann bricht ein Unwetter aus, und nur Beverly kommt knapp mit dem Leben davon.Etwa funfzig Jahre spater kampft ihre Enkelin Alma, eine Umweltschutzerin, fur die Wiederherstellung des okologischen Gleichgewichts dieser Inseln. Sie sind von Ratten verseucht, von Wildschweinen uberlaufen, von fremden Adlern heimgesucht. Im gegnerischen Lager engagiert sich Dave LaJoy, um das Leben der Tiere zu retten. Wer hat recht? Soll man die Rettung eines Okosystems verfolgen oder Toten um jeden Preis verhindern?

Identitatsdiebstahl eine Verbrechensvariante, die Existenzen vernichten kann. Das Zeitalter der PINs, Codes und Passworter macht es den Tatern leicht, sich Zugang zu fremden Konten zu verschaffen, diese zu plundern und sich die Identitat anderer uberzustulpen. Dana Halter ist jung, schon und gehorlos und sie wird unversehens Opfer eines solchen Verbrechens. Eines Morgens wird sie verhaftet und wegen Delikten angeklagt, die sie nie begangen hat.

Basilea, años cuarenta. Albert Hofmann lleva a cabo ensayos clínicos con su última creación, el LSD, un compuesto químico que subvertirá el mundo de la cultura. Harvard, a comienzos de los sesenta. Fitzhugh Loney, estudiante de psicologia, es invitado a la fiesta que da Timothy Leary, psicologo y entusiasta de las drogas psicodelicas. Alli tendra su primer contacto con el LSD y emprendera un prodigioso viaje que empieza en un campus de Cambridge, donde Leary conduce unos experimentos dudosamente cientificos, y que acabara convirtiendose en una experiencia reveladora y desconcertante. A traves de la historia de Timothy Leary y sus lisergicos psiconautas, esta novela supone el testimonio de una epoca convulsa, los años sesenta, y la aparicion de una droga que cambiaria el mundo para siempre.

Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, "The Women" plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a fascinating American icon and Americas most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Afilada, salvaje y sutil en igual medida, "The Women" pondera el caos, los horrores y las incontenibles pasiones de un fascinante icono americano y el arquitecto mas famoso de los Estados Unidos, Frank Lloyd Wright.

T. C. Boyles account of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the voices of the four women who loved him, is a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

The title novella in Boyles's ninth collection is as good as anything the prolific author of The Women has written. Basing his story on the historical Victor of Aveyron, the feral child discovered in the wilds of France in 1797 and slowly brought to heel indoors under the patient but understandably frustrated doctor Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, Boyle interrogates history with an experienced reader's wariness of sentimental revisionism and a great writer's attention to precisely what defines the child's wildness. The 13 other stories are a grab bag of Boyles's signature modes and are, therefore, mixed. There's Question 62, a by-the-numbers suburban comedy concerning an escaped tiger; La Concita, a dutiful requiem for baby boomer ordinary guyism; and Sin Dolor, a bona fide Borgesian legend about a child whose inability to feel pain fails to protect him from more subtle wounds. Stronger material is found in The Lie, about a man who lies about his newborn baby's death to get out of work, comprising one of the book's few surprises. What's largely missing is experimentation, intimacy and deviation from a catalogue throughout which Boyle has proven himself doggedly reliable; one wonders when this wild child got housebroken. (Jan.)

A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment.In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses hisunerring eye on humanity''s relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning ''Are We Not Men?'' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while ''The Relive Box'' parodies our obsession with electronic games.In ''She''s the Bomb'', a young woman waits on her graduation day, heart in mouth, for an explosive event. A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in ''The Five-Pound Burrito'', but learns that success comes at a price. An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in ''The Argentine Ant'', but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting. And in the chilling ''The Designee'', a lonely widower can''t believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England.In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly throughthe present and near future, he inhabits his characters'' minds with a ventriloquist''s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.

Comparado con Pynchon, García Márquez o Twain, estamos ante un escritor privilegiado, capaz de sumergirse, como Faulkner, en unos ambientes que parecen haber sido concebidos en una olla a presión.T. C. Boyle, uno de los narradores norteamericanos mas solidos de las ultimas decadas, nos ofrece en su indiscutible obra maestra, Las mujeres, la vida y amores de uno de los iconos mas controvertidos del siglo XX, el visionario arquitecto Frank Lloyd Wright. Su imponente finca de Taliesin, en el Wisconsin profundo, quemada dos veces y dos veces reconstruida, empieza a ser asediada por los periodistas, avidos de retratar la escandalosa vida amorosa de su dueño. Kitty, la primera esposa de Wright, esta convencida de que las amantes de su marido solo son un espejismo. Martha Mamah Borthwick es una belleza que sera asesinada por un criado. Y su segunda mujer, Miriam, ha de disputarse el trono del corazon del arquitecto con la sensual Olgivanna, una bailarina serbia que comparte con el una vision tempestuosa y turbulenta de la vida, y que es un autentico barril de polvora a punto de estallar.

Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world''s most ambitious ecological experiment. Gazing longingly at Ecosphere II, which rises like a spaceship from the Arizona desert, Linda knows she can survive under its glass dome. Competition is fierce between the hopefuls, among them smooth-talking PR man Ramsay, and Dawn, a naive beauty. All are certain that they would never, ever, break closure before two years are up unlike their discredited predecessors.Inside this humid microcosm, the terranauts'' labours over crops and livestock, their battles with creepy crawlies, their hostilities and sexual dalliances are all observed by the tourists who come to gawp, Mission Control''s cameras and the watchful eye of the media. As the crew struggles to control nature, and hunger sets in, the snake in this Eden starts to look unmistakably human.Inspired by real-life events, The Terranauts is a darkly comic, acutely insightful story of human behaviour, animal instincts, idealism and ambition. Placing utopian visions and individual motives under the microscope, this is T. C. Boyle at his acerbic, pitch-perfect best.

San Miguel - un barrido por el viento, islote frente a la costa de California - es la meta de esperanza para el Marantha enfermo que junto con su marido Will, hija adoptiva Edith y la limpieza llega alli en el Año Nuevo en 1888 para llevar una nueva vida. Pero pronto ella sospecha que San Miguel no va a ser el lugar de su recuperacion, como se le habia prometido. San Miguel, un islote barrido por el viento frente a la costa de California - es la ultima esperanza para Marantha que, junto a su marido Will y su hija adoptiva Edith llega alli en el Año Nuevo en 1888 para llevar una nueva vida. Pero pronto ella sospecha que San Miguel no va a ser el lugar de su recuperacion, como se le habia prometido.

A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. Giant men are kept in cages to ensure their nightly service to their country. A man develops an unhealthy interest in his recently deceased reclusive rock-star neighbour. And on Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo a terrible and tragic event occurs.These stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in an enthralling collection.

In Costa Rica uberfallen drei bewaffnete junge Manner eine Rentnergruppe. Sten Stensen, Schuldirektor im Ruhestand und Vietnam-Veteran, erwurgt einen der Rauber. Sten wird von den anderen Reisenden als Held gefeiert, die Polizei druckt ein Auge zu.Bei Stens Sohn Adam liegen die Dinge anders. Seine Gewaltbereitschaft macht ihn zu einer lebenden Zeitbombe: Adam fliegt von der Schule, wird mit Medikamenten ruhiggestellt und ins Erwachsenenleben entlassen. Fortan lebt er ein Einsiedlerleben und hortet Waffen. Eines Tages gabelt Sara, Aushilfslehrerin und Hufschmiedin, ihn am Straenrand auf. Auch Sara steht mit der burgerlichen Gesellschaft auf Kriegsfu. Adam und Sara werden ein Paar, doch in Adam wachst die Wut weiter, bis er handelt...

T. C. Boyles account of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the voices of the four women who loved him, is a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur. El relato de T. C. Boyle sobre la vida de Frank Lloyd Wright, contada a traves de las voces de las cuatro mujeres que lo amaron, es una obra maestra y una oda a una vida creativa en toda su complejidad y grandeza.

Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Terrifying one islander - literally - to death, and fleeing not only from the Immigration Agents but also an elderly lady convinced he is Seiji Ozawa, Tanaka is unwittingly caught up in a hilarious and irretievably complicated spider''s web of misunderstandings. His sole refuge on the island, the manipulative and ambiguous novelist Ruth Dershowitz, only draws him in ever deeper "Hilarious. A talented entertainer with a beady eye for the absurdities of culture shock." - "Guardian". "Boyle has a fine descriptive eye and peoples the novel with wonderfully absurd characters." - "Time Out".

"Esistono molti modi per raccontare la vita di un uomo come Frank Lloyd Wright. E T.C. Boyle ne sceglie uno davvero particolare: le sue donne. Al diavolo il successo, l''intuizione che l''architettura deve creare un''armonia tra uomo e natura, o i progetti che hanno cambiato definitivamente il concetto di spazio vitale. Al diavolo tutto questo. Meglio parlare di sesso e di tradimenti, deviazioni dell''anima e contraddizioni, fallimenti e chiusure nel carattere del grande architetto. A innescare un percorso di memoria a ritroso e l''ironico e spesso sorprendente sguardo di un giovane studente di architettura giapponese - Sato Tadashi -che nel 1932 sbarca alla corte di Frank Lloyd Wright. Cosi, con passo di danza, fa entrare Olga, una ballerina serba che l''architetto incontra quando ha piu di cinquant''anni e lei non arriva alla trentina. La porta con se come donna delle pulizie a Taliesin, nel Wisconsin, il nido d''amore creato per un''altra amante, e presto diventa la terza moglie dopo Miriam. Miriam e una morfinomane, in gioventu sensuale e passionale, che ha costretto Wright a divorziare, e che tenta, prima con la violenza e poi attraverso vie legali, di allontanarlo da Olga. Andando ancora indietro, emerge, vigoroso e straziante, il personaggio di Kitty, la prima moglie, femminista ante litteram che da a Wright sei figli e viene uccisa in una notte di follia da un domestico infuriato per essere stato ingiustamente licenziato. "