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T.C. Boyle Stories II
T.C. Boyle Stories II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle | T. C. Boyle
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A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow of silence and move to a yurt in the Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. An elderly woman is determined to return to her home in the countryside, despite the knowledge that in doing so she may be signing her own death warrant. Giant men are kept in cages to ensure their nightly service to their country. A man develops an unhealthy interest in his recently deceased reclusive rock-star neighbour. And on Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo a terrible and tragic event occurs... T.C. Boyle Stories II comprises three later volumes of short fiction - After the Plague, Tooth and Claw and Wild Child - along with a new collection, A Death in Kitchawank. These fifty-eight stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in a masterful and enthralling collection. T.C. Boyle is a writer at the height of his craft.
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whofan4life
Mehso-so

The stories were pretty good; some were downright disturbing. After a while it seemed like a slog. I will tell you that I do want to read one or two of his novels, so all-in-all I am glad I picked up (hefted) this book of stories in the end.

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Orpheuswaking
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Follow up collection, will there be a third?

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MayginReads
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Mehso-so

3.5⭐ Several of the stories were predictable, which was unexpected as T.C. Boyle doesn't usually do predictable. The last stories in the book were much better, if they were the only ones in this book, would have been 4 stars. But even when T.C. Boyle writes a predictable story, it's still a really good story and thus worth the read.

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MayginReads
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Just started #reading, or, err, #listening to A Death in Kinkawank and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle.