Tooth and Claw...and Other Stories

ISBN: 0143037439

Author: Boyle, T.C.

Condition: New

For fans of outrageous and fascinating animal narratives such as Netflixs Tiger King, a collection of tales by the renowned T.C. Boyle that explore humanitys wild sideSince his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; "Dogology," about a suburban woman losing her identity to a pack of strays; and "The Kind Assassin," which explores the consequences of a radio shock jock's quest to set a world record for sleeplessness. Muscular, provocative, and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature, the funny and the shocking, Tooth and Claw is Boyle at his best.