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Tooth and Claw

and Other Stories

and Other Stories

and Other Stories

By T.C. Boyle

By T.C. Boyle

By T.C. Boyle

By T.C. Boyle

By T.C. Boyle
Read by T.C. Boyle

By T.C. Boyle
Read by T.C. Boyle

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Jun 27, 2006 | ISBN 9780143037439

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Sep 06, 2005 | 587 Minutes

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    About Tooth and Claw

    For fans of outrageous and fascinating animal narratives such as Netflix’s “Tiger King,” a collection of tales by the renowned T.C. Boyle that explore humanity’s wild side

    Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; “Dogology,” about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and “The Kind Assassin,” which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock’s quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best.

    About Tooth and Claw

    For fans of outrageous and fascinating animal narratives such as Netflix’s “Tiger King,” a collection of tales by the renowned T.C. Boyle that explore humanity’s wild side

    Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; “Dogology,” about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and “The Kind Assassin,” which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock’s quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best.

    About Tooth and Claw

    The fourteen stories gathered here, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and Playboy, as well as in The O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Stories volumes, display T. C. Boyle’s imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity and astonishing range. There are the whimsical tales for which Boyle is justly famous, including "Swept Away," which tells of a female ornithologist who falls in love on the blustery island of Unst, and "The Kind Assassin," about a bored and loveless radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep–and who may never sleep again.

    Listeners will love the comedic drama and lyrical beauty of the title story, about a young man who must contend with a vicious feral cat from Africa that he has won in a bar bet. And who could resist the gripping power of "Dogology," about a young woman in suburban New England who becomes so obsessed with man’s best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays, or "Chicxulub," a nerve-shattering tale of collision, whether it be that of a young woman with a car or of huge objects from outer space slamming into the planet. With these compelling and always entertaining stories, Boyle proves once again that he is "a writer who can take any topic and spin a yarn too good to put down" (Men’s Journal).

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    About T.C. Boyle

    T. C. Boyle is the author of more than ten novels, including World’s End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His story collections include Tooth and Claw as well as The Human Fly… More about T.C. Boyle

    About T.C. Boyle

    T. C. Boyle is the author of more than ten novels, including World’s End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His story collections include Tooth and Claw as well as The Human Fly… More about T.C. Boyle

    About T.C. Boyle

    T. C. Boyle is the author of more than ten novels, including World’s End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His story collections include Tooth and Claw as well as The Human Fly… More about T.C. Boyle

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 27, 2006 | 304 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143037439

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 08, 2005 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781101201190

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Sep 06, 2005 | 587 Minutes | ISBN 9781415923085
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    Praise

    “A dazzling new collection from a writer of “roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales” —Annie Proulx, The Washington Post

    “In T.C. Boyle’s fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant.” —Entertainment Weekly

    Table Of Contents

    Tooth and ClawWhen I Woke Up This Morning, Everything I Had Was Gone
    Swept Away
    Dogology
    The Kind Assassin
    The Swift Passage of the Animals
    Jubilation
    Rastrow’s Island
    Chicxulub
    Here Comes
    All the Wrecks I’ve Crawled Out Of
    Blinded by the Light
    Tooth and Claw
    The Doubtfulness of Water: Knight’s Journey to New York, 1702
    Up Against the Wall

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