The Relive Box And Other Stories - Hardcover

Boyle, T C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408890135 ISBN 13: 9781408890134

Verlag: Bloomsbury, 2017

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BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017A 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.

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Some of the best, funniest, bleakest, most unsettling short stories I've ever read (The Times)

A wonderful short story collection which presents 12 snapshots of lives that have reached critical points. Boyle's brand of futuristic fiction is so uncomfortably close to reality that the stories pack a prophetic punch (Independent 2017-11-06)

Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences . His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented (New York Times)

The author is on a super footing .... when capturing the sense that we stand at a precipitous moment in history. T.C. Boyle is able to provoke moments of uneasy reflection from the reader: look, he seems to do to say - and look hard - not just at what we have done to the world, but at what we might have done to ourselves in the process (Times Literary Supplement 2017-11-10)

By far and away one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today ... Most of all, he is a mesmerising storyteller (Lionel Shriver)

Boyle is such a good storyteller it will probably take, as in Alice Munro's case, the Nobel Prize or retirement for us to fully appreciate what tremendous talent has laid right in front of our noses (John Freeman Boston Globe)

Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges (Barbara Kingsolver)

The master of edgy short fiction (Evening Standard)

A writer of palpable intelligence (LA Times)

A virtuoso craftsman (Annie Proulx)

Biografía del autor:

T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1408890135
• ISBN 13: 9781408890134
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352