If the River Was Whiskey
By (author): "T. Coraghessan Boyle"
Publish Date:
May 1989
ISBN0140119507
ISBN139780140119503
AsinIf the River Was Whiskey
Original titleIf The River Was Whiskey
In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can’t adjust to the “civilized” world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America’s most supple and electric literary inventors.