T. Coraghessan Boyle's Books

Water Music

A Novel

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mungo Park, based on a real-life African explorer, and Ned Rise, a scoundrel, pimp, thief, and cheat, travel about Africa and meet up with a varied assortment of characters--native and colonial, antic and dangerous.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

437

Publisher

Little Brown

Published Date

ISBN 10

0316104671

ISBN 13

9780316104678

The Road to Wellville

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Road to Wellville

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too. So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

512

Publisher

Viking Adult

Published Date

ISBN 10

0670843342

ISBN 13

9780670843343

Wild Child

By: Tom Coraghessan Boyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wild Child

By: Tom Coraghessan Boyle

A feral boy is captured and 'civilised' in the Languedoc region. A young woman is hired to look after a cloned dog that cost its owners $250,000. A widower in a self-satisfied suburb engulfs his loneliness in a sea of rats. A weary city GP is baffled by a Mexican boy, the son of a taco-seller, who can feel no pain. A junior film editor invents the death of his own daughter because he can't face going in to work. A vindictive teenager with a gasoline fixation runs into trouble with his Japanese neighbour. Two washed-up crooners in 1950s New York get creative while recording a schmaltzy Christmas special. In this beguiling new collection of stories, T. C. Boyle, one of the world's greatest storytellers, explores the improbable, the tragic, the allegorical and the altogether ordinary.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1408810484

ISBN 13

9781408810484

The Harder They Come

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Harder They Come

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home.Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt.The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of his child.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

401

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1408859920

ISBN 13

9781408859926

Book's by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Water Music

Water Music

The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville

Wild Child

Wild Child

The Harder They Come

The Harder They Come

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email