T. C. Boyle is the New York Times-bestselling author of seventeen previous novels and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient most recently of the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award and the Henry David Thoreau Award. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California. tcboyle.com
Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences … His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented * NEW YORK TIMES * A virtuoso craftsman -- ANNIE PROULX You don’t feel cheated, reading Boyle – while the head knows there’s manipulation and artifice, the heart thumps * OBSERVER * Boyle has a talent for describing events we may never experience with an arresting matter-of-factness. There is a thrill to this, and to not knowing where he will take us next -- CHRIS POWER * GUARDIAN * Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges -- BARBARA KINGSOLVER