Tooth and Claw...and Other Stories - Softcover

Boyle, T.C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143037439 ISBN 13: 9780143037439

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2006

Synopsis

Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; "Dogology," about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and "The Kind Assassin," which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock's quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A dazzling new collection from a writer of "roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales"
—Annie Proulx, The Washington Post

"In T.C. Boyle’s fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant."
—Entertainment Weekly

About the Author:

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143037439
• ISBN 13: 9780143037439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284