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A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (Daily Telegraph)It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star's ...Show more
Drop City by T. C. Boyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One of the funniest, most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ... this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel' (New York Times Book Review)Star has travelled to Drop City - forty-seven sun-washed acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from s ...Show more
I Walk Between the Raindrops by T. C. Boyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
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
I Walk Between the Raindrops by T. C. Boyle
$32.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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
Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 mesmerized. That night they were both deaf, mouthing to each other over the boo ...Show more
The Descent of Man by T. C. Boyle; Charles Darwin; Adrian Desmond (Introduction by); James A. Moore III (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had ...Show more
The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: 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. ...Show more
The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger; 'examines America's guerilla war between the haves and have-notes with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities'(Observer)When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead th ...Show more
World's End by T. C. Boyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; 'not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past' (The Times)Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his ...Show more
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