Inhalt: "Keiner bringt das Talent der Menschheit, sich selbst zu versenken, so auf den Punkt wie T. C. Boyle." Financial Times»Das war der Tag, an dem die Hyäne kam, um ihn zu holen, und es spielte keine Rolle, dass es im Süden Frankreichs überhaupt keine Hyänen gab, vor allem nicht in Pont-Saint-Esprit, sie war da und wollte ihn holen.« Dreizehn neue brillante Storys vom Meister des Genres, surreal und abgründig witzig: Sie handeln von sprechenden Drohnenautos, die ihre Passagiere auf algorithmischen Routen durch die Landschaft führen, von bodenständigen Müttern, die sich mit jungen Incel-Männern anlegen, aber auch von Spaziergängen durch den kalifornischen Regen, während die Küste von Sturzfluten verwüstet wird. Kein Autor versteht es so komisch und schonungslos, ins Herz unserer aus den Fugen geratenen Gegenwart zu stechen wie T. C. Boyle. Umfang: 272 S. ISBN: 978-3-446-28242-1
Inhalt: Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara â?" a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government â?" is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt. The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of his child. Umfang: 400 S. ISBN: 978-1-4088-5994-0
Inhalt: Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the latest tragedy in this never-ending saga. This is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, The Women plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a formidable American icon. Umfang: 464 S. ISBN: 978-1-4088-2675-1
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