About the Author

T.C. Boyle's novels include WORLD'S END winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, THE TORTILLA CURTAIN, RIVEN ROCK, THE ROAD TO WELVILLE, WATER MUSIC and FRIEND OF THE EARTH. His stories appear regularly in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire & The Atlantic Monthly. Playboy, Granta and The Paris Review. He lives in California.

Reviews

'Boyle is a gifted and empathic satirist, a writer unafraid of the grand gesture' Bret Easton Ellis 'Boyle is a master of structure, his stories beautifully engineered machines which he spray-paints with graffiti' Independent