Greasy Lake and Other Stories

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live ” ( The New York Times )—from the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain . “Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.”— The Los Angeles Times Book Review In “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long pa