Author: tcboyle

A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD. In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a … in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and…

A second volume of collected short fiction—from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short StoryFew authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the author’s first four collections to … four collections to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II gathers the work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form as well as a preface in…

“America’s most imaginative contemporary novelist” (Newsweek) brings Frank Lloyd Wright and his four very different lovers to life. This New York Times bestseller is “Boyle at his best… Mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review).

A “compelling” classic (Chicago Tribune) with over 5,300 five-star ratings on Goodreads: After an accident, the lives of two very different couples — wealthy Los Angeles liberals and struggling Mexican immigrants — intersect in a series of tragically funny misunderstandings.

This timely, devastating novel from a New York Times bestselling author illuminates the human psyche with its portrayal of two men — a veteran Marine and his troubled son — both volatile in different ways. “Vivid and sharp, patient and pressing” (Los Angeles Times).