| Budding Prospects: A Pastoral Contributor(s): Boyle, T. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140299963 ISBN-13: 9780140299960 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1990 Annotation: T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range, richness, and exuberance. His stories have won accolades for their irony and black humor, for their verbal pyrotechnics, for their fascination with everything bizarre and queasy, and for the razor-sharp way in which they dissect America's obsession with image and materialism. Gathered together here are all of the stories that have appeared in his four previous collections, as well as seven that have never before appeared in book form. Together they comprise a book of small treasures, a definitive gift for Boyle fans and for every reader ready to discover the "ferocious, delicious imagination" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society" (The New York Times). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 85003594 |
| Series: Contemporary American Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.07" W x 7.73" (0.49 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An "irresistible" (Los Angeles Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis Sativa and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they haven't reckoned on nosy Northern California-style neighbors, torrential rain, demands of the flesh, and Felix's improbable new love, a wayward sculptress on whose behalf he undertakes a one-man vendetta against a drug-busting state trooper named Jerpbak. As their deal escalates through crises into nightmare, their dreams of easy money get nipped in the bud. |