Wild Child: and Other Stories - SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing

Boyle, T.C.

ISBN 10: 0670021423 / ISBN 13: 9780670021420

Published by Viking Adult, New York, 2010

About this Item

Flawless As-New condition 1st Edition/1st Printing hardcover and dust jacket SIGNED by T.C. Boyle in our presence at a reading and signing event in Los Angeles on the title page without personalization. We will carefully pack it in bubble-wrap to protect its corners and ship it in a sturdy box to make sure it arrives in pristine condition. Seller Inventory # ABH768

Bibliographic Details

Title: Wild Child: and Other Stories - SIGNED 1st ...

Publisher: Viking Adult, New York

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A superb new collection from "a writer who can take you anywhere" (The New York Times)

In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France, that it becomes not just new but definitive: yes, this is how it must have been. The tale is by turns magical and moving, a powerful investigation of what it means to be human.

There is perhaps no one better than T.C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying his readers while at the same time testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance. The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories, whether in the form of the catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his own humanity ("La Conchita") or the wind-driven fires that howl through a high California canyon ("Ash Monday"). Other tales range from the drama of a man who spins Homeric lies in order to stop going to work, to that of a young woman who must babysit for a $250,000 cloned Afghan and the sad comedy of a child born to Mexican street vendors who is unable to feel pain.

Brilliant, incisive, and always entertaining, Boyle's short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

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.