T. Coraghessan Boyle
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st Viking ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 476 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Battle Creek, Michigan in 1907 people come in search of the magic pill to prolong life or the profit from manufacturing it. They find Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his dietary wisdom.
3) Blue skies
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate channge"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this novel, the fictionalized Kinsey ("Prok") is seen through the eyes of John Milk, a naïve, obedient, yet conflicted researcher. As "scientific study" blurs into exhibitionism and voyeurism, Prok's clinical rigor gradually forces his inner circle into literally compromising positions.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the title story of "Walk Between the Raindrops," a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit--it was there and it came for him.