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After the Plague by T.C. Boyle
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Maverick, unpredictable and accomplished, T.C. Boyle has been called the ‘trickster of American letters’. The sixteen short stories of After the Plague veer superbly from the psychological to the slapstick, from surrealism to satire; think tragic and humorous; provocative and gently affectionate; unnerv ...Show more
Blue Skies by T. C. Boyle
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening,writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans.But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young "Burmie" she buys froma local pet store, she inadvertentl ...Show more
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California devoted to peace, free love and living the simple, natural life. For Star and her companions Drop City is utopia, a community free of the restrictions of the outside world. But undern ...Show more
I Walk Between the Raindrops by T. C. Boyle
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neigh ...Show more
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to su ...Show more
San Miguel by T.C. Boyle
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel. Joined by her hus ...Show more
San Miguel by T.C. Boyle
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel. Joined by her hus ...Show more
Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
There's more than one way to take a life.The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerised. That night they were both deaf, mouthing to each other over the boomin ...Show more
Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human?Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show circuit with an unusual protege in tow- a chimp by the na ...Show more
The Harder They Come by T. C. Boyle
20.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 tou ...Show more
The Harder They Come by T. C. Boyle
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 tou ...Show more