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If the River Was Whiskey: Stories
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If the River Was Whiskey: Stories Paperback - 1990

by T. Coraghessan Boyle; Boyle

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In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can’t adjust to the “civilized” world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America’s most supple and electric literary inventors.

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In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can't adjust to the "civilized" world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America's most supple and electric literary inventors.

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  • Title If the River Was Whiskey: Stories
  • Author T. Coraghessan Boyle; Boyle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Publication date 1990-05-01
  • ISBN 9780140119503 / 0140119507
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 5.06 x 0.56 in (20.17 x 12.85 x 1.42 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89029956
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Boyle is a consummate entertainer, a verbal showman, and explosively gifted satirist.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Boyle has the tale-teller’s gift in abundance. . . . The eye is sharp and focused, the ear has perfect pitch.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“Writing at its very, very best.”—USA Today

About the author

T.C. Boyle is the author of thirteen novels, including "World's End," which won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award; "Drop City," which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the "New York Times" bestseller "The Women." He has also published nine collections of stories and was the recipient of the prestigious PEN/Malmud Award for Excellence in the short story. His stories appear in "The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, McSweeney's, " and" Playboy." A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives in California.
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