I Walk Between the Raindrops, T.C. Boyle
I Walk Between the Raindrops, T.C. Boyle
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I Walk Between the Raindrops
Stories

Author: T.C. Boyle

Narrator: T.C. Boyle, Cheryl Smith, Jason Culp, Derek Perkins, Jeremy Arthur, Stephen Mendel, Johnathan McClain, Ewan Chung, Pete Simonelli, David de Vries, Nan McNamara, Rex Anderson

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there and it came for him.”A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination. 

About T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on May 27, 2022

Incels, adults in arrested development, COVID (of course), climate change, suicide, self-driving cars, the homeless problem, teachers hooking up with students, hallucinogenics, and a social credit system - in the US? TC Boyle’s latest collection of short stories is very much about the here and now o......more

Goodreads review by Kasa on July 22, 2022

T. C. Boyle has been writing for decades, and in the 40 years or so that I've been a fan, he's rarely disappointed me. While his novels can at times use a bit of a trim as he zeros in his laser gaze, his short fiction is concise and, especially in this latest collection, contemporary and wise. There......more

Goodreads review by Olaf on July 12, 2024

Bekanntlich bin ich kein Freund von Kurzgeschichten, aber bei T.C. Boyle kann man mal eine Ausnahme machen. Und man wird letztendlich belohnt dafür!......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on April 26, 2022

I'm delighted to be the first to rate and review this book on GR. I requested this book from Netgalley solely based on the strength of Boyle’s novel Talk to Me. And sure enough, in short form the author doesn’t disappoint either. In fact, this collection is pretty terrific. Some writers just that tha......more

Goodreads review by Kim on August 16, 2022

At first blush, the subjects of these stories appear unrelated, even random, until one obvious common thread arises: each story involves an examination of how we perceive one another, and the consequences which result from specific perspectives.  Thank you to Ecco books, a publishing imprint of Harpe......more

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