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Greasy Lake and Other Stories Paperback T. C. Boyle
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Located in: Reno, Nevada, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780140077810
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140077812
ISBN-13
9780140077810
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53369
Product Key Features
Book Title
Greasy Lake and Other Stories
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
85-025993
Reviews
"Satirical fables of contemporary life, so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written by Evelyn Waugh as sketches for...''Saturday Night Live.'' ...Indeed, the best of his stories not only make the reader see; they make the reader hear and smell and feel." -- The New York Times, "Satirical fables of contemporary life, so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written by Evelyn Waugh as sketches for...'Saturday Night Live.' ...Indeed, the best of his stories not only make the reader see; they make the reader hear and smell and feel." -- The New York Times
Dewey Edition
19
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle 's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khruschev., Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen "fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live " ( The New York Times )--from the award-winning author of The Tortilla Curtain . "Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language."-- The Los Angeles Times Book Review In "The Hector Quesadilla Story," T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in "All Shook Up," he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in "On for the Long Haul," he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.O932G7 1986
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Seller feedback (431,021)
- t***n (588)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat deal, thank you!
- t***u (353)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem as described; thank you
- 8***m (14)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe book was shipped quickly and arrived well packaged. The book was in the condition the listing said it would be in. Overall, smooth transaction from this shop and would use them again for future books.