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  regularly appears in The New Yorker, GQ, Playboy and

  Esquire. He now lives near Santa Barbara in California.

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  Talk Talk

  Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out. But there has been a terrible mistake – she didn’t commit any of these crimes. She and her lover Bridger set out to clear her name and find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense.

  The Inner Circle

  In 1939 on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who, behind closed doors, is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his ‘inner circle’ of researchers, freshman John Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited…

  Tooth and Claw

  This collection of short stories finds Boyle at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.

  After the Plague

  After the Plague is a masterful collection of short stories – 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

  Drop City

  Star has travelled to Drop City to be free from society’s constraints, but when the hippies decamp to the wilds of Alaska where they intend to live off the land, the group runs into trouble, unexpected friendships are made and dangerous enemies are born.

  Riven Rock

  Shortly after marrying Katherine, Stanley McCormick suffers a nervous breakdown, is diagnosed with a tormenting sex mania and is imprisoned in the forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. Stanley is confined for the next twenty years, yet Katherine remains strong in her belief that one day he will return to her whole.

  World’s End

  Walter is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speeding on his motorbike, until he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts and becomes determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.

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  By the Same Author

  Novels

  Drop City

  The Inner Circle

  Talk Talk

  The Women

  When the Killing’s Done

  Riven Rock

  The Tortilla Curtain

  The Road to Wellville

  World’s End

  Budding Prospects

  Water Music

  A Friend of the Earth

  Short Stories

  T. C. Boyle Stories

  Without a Hero

  If the River Was Whiskey

  Greasy Lake

  Descent of Man

  After the Plague

  The Human Fly

  Tooth and Claw

  Wild Child

  This paperback edition first published 1996

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