T. C. Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth is a story of environmental destruction. The novel is set in 2025; as a result of global warming and the greenhouse effect, the climate has drastically changed, and, accordingly, biodiversity is a thing of the past.

Le XVIIIe siècle expire, dans les convulsions que l'on sait. Tandis que Paris se fatigue de la guillotine, que Londres continue à se saouler au gin, l'explorateur écossais Mungo Park découvre le royaume de Ségou, en Afrique, où la folie humaine s'exprime encore avec une simplicité biblique. De retour au pays, il …

A superb new collection from "a writer who can take you anywhere" (The New York Times) In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France, that it becomes …