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Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle
25.99 NZD
27.99 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart. ...Show more
San Miguel by T. Coraghessan Boyle
24.99 NZD
Category: 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
The Inner Circle by T. Coraghessan Boyle
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
In 1939 on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man. B ...Show more
The Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated ...Show more
Tooth and Claw by T.Coraghessan Boyle
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats, and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinat ...Show more
When the Killing's Done by T. Coraghessan Boyle
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of ...Show more
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