The joyfully freewheeling, funny and profound new novel from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
Welcome to America. On the east coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the west coast, California is engulfed with wildfire.
But for one family, the impending environmental disaster is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake; her pious brother Cooper is wrestling with a tic bite; and their mom Ottilie has resorted to cooking with crickets. Everyone is drinking too much - and the bugs seems to be disappearing. It seems as if it's anything but blue skies ahead...
A delightfully dark comedy of manners about family life at the end of the world, Blue Skies is a masterful new adventure from one of the America's great comic writers.
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'Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences ... His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented' - NEW YORK TIMES
'A virtuoso craftsman' - ANNIE PROULX
'Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges' - BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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978-1-5266-5971-2 (9781526659712)
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T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
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- Half-title
- Also by T. C. Boyle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Part I
- 1. They were like Jewelry
- 2. Entomophage
- 3. Field Study
- 4. High Tide
- 5. Apis Mellifera
- 6. Bug Boy
- 7. Willie II, Willie I
- 8. No Matter How Many Blows
- 9. The Wedding
- 10. Tahoe
- Part II
- 11. She didn't like Flying
- 12. It was a Rowboat
- 13. Peeling a Grape
- 14. The Twins
- 15. The next-to-last Chrysalis
- 16. Sierra
- 17. Python Mom
- 18. Ashes
- 19. After the Funeral
- Part III
- 20. In the Night, When She Couldn't Sleep
- 21. The Heat
- 22. What is Flammable and What is Not
- 23. Eaten from Within
- 24. The Fire this time
- 25. It was a Skiff
- 26. It all Pales
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
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