Pressestimmen
"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
Kurzbeschreibung
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.
Synopsis
Stories ranging from the farcical to the mythic present the doings and darings of an aging Latin ball player, an Elvis Presley look-alike, a survivalist, and other figures of our times.
Autorenportrait
T. Coraghessan Boyle wurde 1948 in Peekskill, New York im Hudson Valley geboren. Er war Lehrer an der dortigen High-School und publizierte während dieser Zeit seine ersten Kurzgeschichten. Heute lebt er in Kalifornien und unterrichtet an der University of Southern California in Los Angeles Creative Writing. Sein 1987 erschienener Roman "World's End" brachte ihm höchstes Lob der Kritik. Noch im selben Jahr erhielt Boyle den PEN/Faulkner-Preis.
