Without a Hero, T.C. Boyle
Without a Hero, T.C. Boyle
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Without a Hero
Stories

Author: T.C. Boyle

Narrator: Jonathan Reese

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2013

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena such as a center for the treatment of acquisitive disorders; a couple in search of the last toads on earth; and a real estate wonder boy on a dude safari near convenient Bakerfield, California. Sharp, guileful, and malevolently funny, Boyle's stories are "more than funny, better than wicked," says The Philadelphia Inquirer. "They make you cringe with their clarity."

About The Author

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-three books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague, Drop City, The Inner Circle, Tooth and Claw, The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women, Wild Child, When the Killing's Done, and San Miguel. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he is Distinguished Professor of English. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Granta and McSweeney's, among many others. He has been the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year (World's End, 1988); the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story (T.C. Boyle Stories, 1999); and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (The Tortilla Curtain, 1997).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sketchbook on September 03, 2017

TC Boyle proves that a writing professor can have a full life in print. While running the writing program at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, he published a dozen novels, a slew of stories and won many awards. In fact, he has something of a cult rep. The 15 stories in this......more

Goodreads review by David on May 20, 2024

It seems that, for those who like wild surprises from an author, T.C. Boyle can be a reader's blessing and also something of a curse. This short story collection (again) shows that - while his vigorous imagination remains intact - what Boyle chooses to explore can be hit or miss, depending either on......more

Goodreads review by Frank on May 04, 2022

Another great collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle. I really enjoy Boyle's writing and his short stories are marvelous. Boyle is one of my favorite authors and even though I prefer his novels, his short stories are some of the best that I have encountered. This collection includes some very i......more

Goodreads review by Sarah Beth on September 22, 2011

I always struggle writing reviews for short story collections because I could write separate reviews for each one of the 15 stories included in Boyle's Without a Hero. This is the second set of short stories I've read by T.C. Boyle, the first being Tooth and Claw. Of the two, I definitely preferred......more

Goodreads review by David on July 13, 2007

T.C. Boyle has written several collections of stories, and to be honest, I like them all. Immensely. They all hover between four and five stars for me, so rather than give them all just four stars, I've chosen to give five to this one. Possibly only because I've read it more recently than some of th......more

Quotes

“The literary performances here retain Mr. Boyle’s astonishing and characteristic verve, his unaverted gaze, his fascination with everything lunatic and queasy. . . . His stories fill a reader with the giddy nausea of our cultural and theological confusions.”—The New York Times Book Review

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