Riven Rock

T. C. Boyle's seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Locked up for the rest of his life at Riven Rock, the family's California mansion, Stanley is treated by a series of confident doctors determined to cure him. But his true salvation lies with Katherine who, throughout her career as a scientist and suffragette, continues a patient vigil from beyond the walls of Riven Rock, never losing hope that one day Stanley will be healed.Blending social history with some of the most deliciously dark humor ever written, Boyle employs his hallmark virtuoso prose to tell the story of America's age of innocence--and of a love affair that is as extraordinary as it is unforgettable.

Literature & Fiction

T.Coraghessan Boyle

T.C. BOYLE

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

In these outrageous, hilarious stories by one of the most imaginative young writers of fiction today, Idi Amin presides over the Second International Dada Fair, the Yerkes chimp runs off with his female trainer, and a Norse poet tries to overcome bard-block

Descent of Man

Atlantic-Little, Brown

A tale inspired by the life of Frank Lloyd Wright is presented from the perspectives of four very different women who loved him and offers insight into the eminent architect's enduring struggles against conventional boundaries. 75,000 first printing.

The Women

United States

The Viking Press

At the instigation of Vogelsang, a far-out entrepreneur, Felix, his friend Phil Cherniske, and Phil's housemate, a two-hundred-pound barbarian known as Gesh, set out to grow a crop of sinsemilla in the hills of northern California

Budding Prospects

Stories ranging from the farcical to the mythic present the doings and darings of an aging Latin ball player, an Elvis Presley look-alike, a survivalist, and other figures of our times

Greasy Lake and Other Stories

Walter Van Brunt, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, collides with his own historical roots when he crashes his motorcycle into a historical marker along the highway

World's End

If the River Was Whiskey

Dust jacket art by Bascove. His sixth book and third collection of stories.

A young Japanese seaman, trained in the way of the samurai but inspired by America, jumps ship off the Georgia coast and ends up in a writer's colony, in a dark comedy of clashing manners, mistaken identity, and love

East Is East

Literary

The Road to Wellville

The latest novel by the author of World's End focuses on the great American breakfast food and exotic enema craze of 1907 to comment on the national quest for health and longevity. 100,000 first printing. First serial Rolling Stone. BOMC. Tour.

Fifteen darkly satirical stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of If the River Was Whiskey feature a couple in search of the last toads on earth, and a real-estate wonder boy on safari. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. BOMC Main. Tour.

Without a Hero and other stories

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