- Gebundene Ausgabe: 238 Seiten
- Verlag: Viking/Allen Lane (Mai 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0670849634
- ISBN-13: 978-0670849635
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,7 x 2,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 494.594 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Publishers Weekly
Most effective of the 16 technically ingenious and rudely funny, satirical stories in Boyle's fourth collection are the sketches of disaffected individuals who take refuge in hermetic surroundings, self-help programs, political causes and conspicuous consumption to hold at bay the banal world of convention and compromise. In "Big Game," Bernard Puff, impressario of Puff's African Game Ranch in Bakersfield, Calif., peddles a simulacrum of the African bush. His carefully nurtured fantasy world is punctured by the arrival of a cynical young real estate mogul who detects "every crack in the plaster," and whose rapacious hunting leads to a grisly twist of fate when the animals revolt on the veldt. In "Filthy with Things," a pathological couple whose home is sinking under the weight of their "collectibles" enlists the services of an evangelical professional organizer who banishes them to a "nonacquisitive environment" while she takes inventory of their astounding clutter ("three hundred and nine bookends, forty-seven rocking chairs and over two thousand plates, cups and saucers"). Other poignant tales tell of an ephemeral romance between a Russian and an American, the introduction of anti-drug rhetoric in a suburban grade school and the experience of growing up in postwar suburbia, a world Boyle regards with anxiety, nostalgia and a properly grim sense of humor.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
If he wants to, Boyle can summon the angst for your standard realistic novel. In this collection's title story, for example, he tells of a newly divorced fellow who inadvertently becomes the host of a young Russian woman who is awestruck by the bounty of America; our distinctly unheroic narrator won't marry her and thus forces her into prostitution. Boyle draws from this premise an indictment of capitalism as well as two engaging character studies. His mockery is at the center of things elsewhere, however, in stories that are less psychological studies than satirical conceits, such as "Big Game." Set on a hunting preserve near Bakersfield, it's a send-up of Green Hills of Africa, complete with Boyle's deadpan gun lore and a decrepit but still deadly charging elephant. "Hopes Rise" features two frazzled, precious, altogether contemporary characters, or caricatures. The story seems to lament the universal death of frogs and impending ecological disaster but, in the end, comments instead on the separation from nature that urban lifestyles entail. Perhaps Boyle's most arch effort is the slight "Filthy with Things," about people so inundated with possessions they much enter a recovery program. Boyle's fabulist tendencies are much restrained here; not every story is remarkable, but at his best he reminds you of Evelyn Waugh. Of interest, too, because of next fall's movie from Boyle's novel, The Road to Wellville. John Mort
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