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If the River Was Whiskey: Stories (Contemporary American Fiction) Trade paperback - 1990
by T.C. Boyle
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- Title If the River Was Whiskey: Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)
- Author T.C. Boyle
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date May 1990
- Bookseller's Inventory # 22192
- ISBN 9780140119503 / 0140119507
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.06 x 0.56 in (20.17 x 12.85 x 1.42 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89029956
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can’t adjust to the civilized” world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America’s most supple and electric literary inventors.