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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.

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.

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.

San Miguel ist eine kleine, karge Insel vor der kalifornischen Kuste. Als die schwindsuchtige Marantha am Neujahrstag 1888 dort mit ihrem Mann Will, ihrer Adoptivtochter Edith und der Magd Ida eintrifft, ahnt sie schnell, dass San Miguel nicht der Ort ihrer Genesung sein wird. Funfzig Jahre spater sucht wieder ein Paar sein Gluck auf San Miguel. Herbie Lester, ein Kriegsveteran, und seine junge Frau Elise beschlieen in der stillen Abgeschiedenheit der Insel ihr Ehegluck zu leben. Und abermals stellt San Miguel menschliche Beziehungen auf eine Zerreiprobe.

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt. The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of his child.

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Stens military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolees unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adams views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt. The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of his child.

Endlich wird der aufstrebende wissenschaftliche Assistent Fitz auf eine der LSD-Partys seines Professors Leary in Harvard eingeladen. Er erhofft sich davon einen wichtigen Karriereschritt, merkt aber bald, dass Learys Ziele weniger medizinischer Natur sind; es geht dem Psychologen um eine Revolution des Bewusstseins und eine von sozialen Zwangen losgeloste Lebensform. Fitz wird mitgerissen von dieser Vision, mit Frau und Sohn schliet er sich der Leary-Truppe an: Sie leben in Mexiko, spater in der beruhmten Kommune in Millbrook, mit Drogen und sexuellen Ausschweifungen ohne Ende. Ein kreischend greller Trip an die Grenzen des Bewusstseins und daruber hinaus - T.C. Boyle at his best.

This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle''s customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of ''power, beauty, wealth and prestige''. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women''s suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole.

Basada en una historia real, esta novela mezcla tragedia y comedia en dosis corrosivas. Stanley McCormick, un heredero multimillonario y esquizofrenico, vive confinado en la inmensa mansión de Riven Rock. Alli esta alejado del mundo y, sobre todo, de las mujeres, a quienes ama con una pasion que asume las formas de un odio incontrolable y agresivo. Hay dos personas que velan por el: su esposa, la hermosa Katherine, que busca por todos los medios una cura para su marido, y el extraño enfermero Eddie O Kane. El tejido de estas tres vidas le sirve a T. C. Boyle para hacer una diseccion satirica, y a la vez dramatica, de la sociedad norteamericana de principios de siglo, y de las absurdas relaciones entre el amor y la autoridad. "En las seguras manos de Boyle esta extraña historia americana se convierte en una insolita exploracion de la misoginia, la enfermedad mental y el lado oscuro del amor." The New Yorker

"After the Plague" is a formidable achievement. It is hip, slick and witty''. - "Sunday Telegraph". '' A mercurial craftsman mustering some of his most assured work''. - "FT". ''Boyle has the ability to create devastating situations, lighten them with a satirical gleam and then twist them into the kind of joke that makes your stomach hurt''. - "Daily Mail". ''Boyle writes so beautifully it always feels natural, never forced''. - "Guardian". Maverick, unpredictable and accomplished, T.C. Boyle has been called the ''trickster of American letters''. "After the Plague" is his latest collection of short stories - here are tales that superbly veer from the psychological to the slapstick, from surrealism to satire, once again proving him to be one of America''s most formidable writers.

It''s 2025. Tyrone O''Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop-star''s private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a reality. In his youth, Ty had been so serious about environmental issues that as an ecoterrorist committed to Earth Forever! He had endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when the past seems far behind him and he is just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life ...Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, in "A Friend Of The Earth", T.C. Boyle gives us a story that is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future.

Ambientada en el valle de Hudson, esta obra abarca trescientos años de historia en los que se entrelazan los destinos de varias familias. En el siglo XVII los Van Brunt, humildes granjeros procedentes de Nueva Zelanda, se enfrentan a los Van Wart, ricos colonos propietarios que ejercen un dominio feudal sobre sus peones. Tendran que pasar siglos para que ambas familias se unan amigablemente en la relacion que entablan sus ultimos descendentes. El autor repasa en esta obra la historia de Estados Unidos con humor y sarcasmo.

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart. A world away in Boynton, a tiny town in the interior of Alaska, Sess Harder, a pioneer who actually does live off the land, hunting, trapping and fishing, yearns for someone to share the harsh winters with him. When the authorities threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies abandon camp and head up north to Alaska, the last frontier. But neither they nor the inhabitants of Boynton are completely prepared for each other - and as the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born.

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart. A world away in Boynton, a tiny town in the interior of Alaska, Sess Harder, a pioneer who actually does live off the land, hunting, trapping and fishing, yearns for someone to share the harsh winters with him. When the authorities threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies abandon camp and head up north to Alaska, the last frontier. But neither they nor the inhabitants of Boynton are completely prepared for each other - and as the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born.