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The Inner Circle Hardback - 2004

by T.C. Boyle

Fresh on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-nominated novel, Drop City, T.C. Boyle has spun an even more dazzling tale that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. Boyle's tenth novel, The Inner Circle has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of documenting . . . well, almost.

A love story, The Inner Circle is narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an extraordinarily charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered his life's true calling: sex. As a member of Kinsey's 'inner circle' of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibited and problematic for his marriage. For in his later years Kinsey (who behind closed doors is a sexual enthusiast of the first order) ever more recklessly pushed the boundaries both personally and professionally.

While Boyle doesn't resist making the most of this delicious material, The Inner Circle is at heart a very moving and very loving look at sex, marriage, and jealousy that will have readers everywhere reassessing their own relationships because, in the end, 'love is all there is.'


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Fresh on the heels of his "New York Times" bestselling and National Book Award- nominated novel, "Drop City," T.C. Boyle has spun an even more dazzling tale that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. Boyle's tenth novel, "The Inner Circle" has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of documenting . . . well, almost.

A love story, "The Inner Circle" is narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an extraordinarily charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered his life's true calling: sex. As a member of Kinsey's ?inner circle? of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibited?and problematic for his marriage. For in his later years Kinsey (who behind closed doors is a sexual enthusiast of the first order) ever more recklessly pushed the boundaries both personally and professionally.

While Boyle doesn?t resist making the most of this delicious material, "The Inner Circle" is at heart a very moving and very loving look at sex, marriage, and jealousy that will have readers everywhere reassessing their own relationships?because, in the end, ?love is all there is.?

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  • Title The Inner Circle
  • Author T.C. Boyle
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Viking Adult, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-09-09
  • ISBN 9780670033447

Media reviews

One of the funniest most subtle, novels we've had about the hippie era's slow fade to black. (The New York Times Book Review)A vastly entertaining tale that balances the exuberance and the excesses perhaps better than any other work of American fiction. (Los Angeles Book Review)

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