{"product_id":"greasy-lake-other-stories-9780140077810","title":"Greasy Lake \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eMythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen \"fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)--from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"The Hector Quesadilla Story,\" T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in \"All Shook Up,\" he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in \"On for the Long Haul,\" he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. C. Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.73h x 5.09w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140077810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/24\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. C. Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels include \u003ci\u003eWorld's End\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has also published numerous collections of short stories. A Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Barbara.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44436222476403,"sku":"9780140077810","price":26.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_08aec878-1279-4e4a-9467-96584cf55916.jpg?v=1772894558","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/greasy-lake-other-stories-9780140077810","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}