Tooth and Claw
and Other Stories
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Tooth and Claw
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Narrated by:
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T. C. Boyle
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Written by:
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T. C. Boyle
About this listen
Since Descent of Man appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time; in a review of his most recent collection, After the Plague, The New York Times hailed him as "a writer who can take you anywhere". Which is exactly what Boyle does in Tooth and Claw.
These 14 stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, display Boyle's imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity, and astonishing range. Here you will find the whimsical tales for which Boyle is famous, including "The Kind Assassin", about a radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep.
Readers will love the comedic drama of the title story, about a man who must contend with a vicious cat from Africa that he has won in a bet. And who could resist the gripping power of "Dogology", about a woman who becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays.
Boyle here proves once again that he is "a writer who can take any topic and spin a yarn too good to put down" (Men's Journal).
©2005 T. Coraghessan Boyle (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc.What the critics say
"The wired rhythm of Boyle's prose and the enormity of his imagination make this collection irresistible; with it he continues to shore up his place as one of the most distinctive, funniest, and finest, writers around." (Publishers Weekly)
"A dazzling new collection from a writer of "roaring intelligence and a curiosity that has led him to develop a masterly range of subjects and locales" —Annie Proulx, The Washington Post
"In T.C. Boyle's fierce, funny new collection, men are fools, women hold the sexual cards, and nature is full of surprises, few of them pleasant." —Entertainment Weekly