by T. C. Boyle
The Inner Circle
As a member of Alfred “Dr. Sex” Kinsey’s “inner circle”, John Milk is called upon to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibited—and problematic for his marriage—as Kinsey ever more recklessly pushes the boundaries both personally and professionally. ISBN 978-0-14-303586-2
Riven Rock
Millionaire Stanley McCormick, diagnosed as a schizophrenic and sexual maniac shortly after his marriage, is forbidden the sight of women, but his strong-willed, virginal wife Katherine Dexter is determined to cure him.
ISBN 978-0-14-027166-9
The Road to Wellville
Centering on John Harvey Kellogg and his turn-of-the-century Battle Creek Spa, this wickedly comic novel brims with Dickensian characters and wildly wonderful plot twists. ISBN 978-0-14-016718-4
Talk Talk
Dana Halter, a young deaf woman, is in a courtroom as a list of charges is read out—assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, passing bad checks. There has been a terrible mistake—someone has stolen her identity. As Dana and her new boyfriend set out to find him, they begin to test the limits of the life they have started to build together. Talk Talk is both a suspenseful road trip across America and a moving story about language, love, and identity. ISBN 978-0-14-311215-0
T.C. Boyle Stories
A virtual feast of the short story, this volume collects all of the work from Boyle’s first four collections, as well as seven tales that have never before appeared in book form. ISBN 978-0-14-028091-3
Tooth and Claw
In T.C. Boyle’s dazzling seventh collection of stories “men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant.”
—Entertainment Weekly ISBN 978-0-14-303743-9
Water Music
Water Music, Boyle’s first novel, follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic Highlands—to their grand meeting in the heart of Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger.
ISBN 978-0-14-006550-3
Without a Hero
With fierce, comic wit, Boyle zooms in on an astonishingly wide range of American phenomena such as a couple in search of the last toads on earth and a real estate wonder boy on a dude safari near Bakerfield, California in this critically-applauded collection of stories. ISBN 978-0-14-017839-5
World’s End
Set in New York’s Hudson Valley in three time periods—the late seventeenth century, the 1940’s, and the late 1960’s—this fascinating novel, for which Boyle won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, follows the interwoven destinies of three families. ISBN 978-0-14-029993-9