REVIEWS

“Superlative author T.C. Boyle is also an excellent reader of his own work. His voice is purely American West—flat-voweled , pleasantly modulated, with a hint of a baritone growl. He reads without vocal flourish, but with an intensity that captures the listener and won't let go. It's pell-mell without being rushed; urgent but not desperate; entirely articulate. And such stories. The fate of a boy who cannot feel pain; the way in which a California mudslide can save a soul; a girl who may or may not lie for her father. Stories that feel simultaneously quotidian and mythic.…This is a mesmerizing audiobook experience.”—AudioFile

“The title novella in Boyles's ninth collection is as good as anything the prolific author of The Women has written….Boyle interrogates history with an experienced reader's wariness of sentimental revisionism and a great writer's attention to precisely what defines the child's wildness.”—Publishers Weekly

“T.C. Boyle, like the megalomaniac American overachievers (John Harvey Kellogg, Alfred Kinsey and Frank Lloyd Wright) at the heart of his muscular, quasi-historical novels The Road to Wellville, The Inner Circle and last year's The Women, runs on a powerful mix of ambition and brilliance. The title novella of Wild Child, Boyle's energetic, engaging ninth collection of short stories…[is] a vivid reimagining of the story of the enfant sauvage of Aveyron….the 13 other stories in Wild Child [are] almost all attention-grabbers….Each of the tales in this entertaining collection show us what the driver in ‘La Conchita’ calls ‘the real deal’—things that really matter.”—NPR

T. C. BOYLE has written twelve novels, including World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; Drop City, a National Book Award Finalist; and eight short-story collections. His stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Atlantic, McSweeney’s, and Paris Review. He lives near Santa Barbara and is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.



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