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A dark, riveting story of the life of one of America's most famous architects, Frank Lloyd Wright...

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 - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - 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.

From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action- packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them.

'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done ' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds...

Ein junger Mann nimmt eine afrikanische Raubkatze zu sich nach Hause, um ein Mädchen zu beeindrucken, und schon bald tobt sich in seinem Schlafzimmer die Natur aus. Eine Frau - des faden Vorstadtlebens mit Mann und Gärtchen überdrüssig - tut sich nachts mit streunenden Hunden zusammen. Sie bleibt nicht lange allein ... T. C. Boyle at his best: Seine neuesten Storys erzählen von selbstverschuldeten Schlamasseln, kosmischen und Naturkatastrophen. Der Mensch macht dabei stets eine traurige Figur.

How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company might explain some of her zeal. With days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma's plan is in danger of sabotage. Dave LaJoy and Anise Reed, a pair of notorious environmental activists, are recognisable from a distance by his knotted dreadlocks and her flame-red cyclone of hair. Dave is an electronics salesman with barely-controlled rages, for whom the plight of the rats is yet another of life's many injustices, along with lazy tramps and second-rate wine. Anise is a struggling folk singer with her own, terrible reasons for getting involved in 'the cause'. From the outset, Alma, Dave and Anise are at ideological loggerheads. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her single mother and a clan of shepherds - the stakes are raised, and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real...When the Killing's Done is T.C. Boyle's blistering new novel, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life - no matter what the fallout.

La historia de Juan de Leche, un tímido y sin experiencia sexual joven que en los 40 años de ayudante de Alfred C. Kinsey fue el famoso zoólogo y pionero en la exploración de la sexualidad humana. El relato de Juan Leche, Meek y sexualmente una joven ingenua, que se convirtió en asistente del Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, pionero en la investigación sexual humana.

At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park.Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry, enter this stable, rural world. They succeed in dazzling everyone ant Mansfield Park, except for Fanny, who sees through their shallow veneer. Throughout the dramatic events that follow it is she who is able the bring back some stability to the ruptured lives of those around her.One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Mansfield Park echoes Jane Austen's fears and awareness of the dawn of a modern age, which was to bring about a complete break from the old country traditions and way of life.

This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.

T. C. Boyles account of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the voices of the four women who loved him, is a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

La música acuática es la placidez de los salones de la Inglaterra victoriana, pero también el rumor de un misterioso y desconocido río en pleno corazón del Africa negra. A finales del siglo XVIII, el cultivado explorador Mungo Park y Ned Rise, uniran sus fuerzas para partir en busca de las fuentes del rio Niger

Basada en una historia real, esta novela mezcla tragedia y comedia en dosis corrosivas. Stanley McCormick, un heredero multimillonario y esquizofrenico, vive confinado en la inmensa mansión de Riven Rock. Alli esta alejado del mundo y, sobre todo, de las mujeres, a quienes ama con una pasion que asume las formas de un odio incontrolable y agresivo. Hay dos personas que velan por el: su esposa, la hermosa Katherine, que busca por todos los medios una cura para su marido, y el extraño enfermero Eddie O Kane. El tejido de estas tres vidas le sirve a T. C. Boyle para hacer una diseccion satirica, y a la vez dramatica, de la sociedad norteamericana de principios de siglo, y de las absurdas relaciones entre el amor y la autoridad. "En las seguras manos de Boyle esta extraña historia americana se convierte en una insolita exploracion de la misoginia, la enfermedad mental y el lado oscuro del amor." The New Yorker

A man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. A handsome young man works in real-estate by day, but has a far more sinister profession by night. 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.These stories explore the mundane, the devastating, the figurative and the implausible in an enthralling collection.

Recién llegados al desierto de Arizona en 1994, «Los Terranautas», un grupo de ocho científicos (cuatro hombres y cuatro mujeres), se prestan voluntarios, en el marco de un exitoso reality show retransmitido a nivel planetario, para confinarse bajo una cúpula de cristal bautizada como «Ecosphere 2», que pretende ser un prototipo de una posible colonia extraterrestre, y que busca demostrar que pueden vivir aislados del resto del mundo durante meses y ser autosuficientes. La cúpula es obra de Jeremiah Reed, un ecovisionario conocido como «D. C.» —«Dios el Creador»—, pero pronto empieza a surgir la duda de si se ha logrado un excitante descubrimiento científico o si se trata de un simple gancho publicitario bajo la excusa del experimento ecológico más ambicioso del mundo. Los científicos serán vigilados por otros investigadores, la Misión de Control, que supervisarán sus movimientos desde este «nuevo Edén», mientras se enfrentan a una serie de catástrofes que amenazan su vida y que pueden conducirles al desastre más absoluto.T. C. Boyle vuelve a sorprendernos con una novela llena de ironía sobre ciencia, sociología, sexo y, sobre todo, supervivencia.