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Tooth and Claw and Other Stories
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
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The fourteen stories gathered here, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as in The O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Stories volumes, display T. C. Boyle's imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity and astonishing range. There are the whimsical tales for which Boyle is justly famous, including "Swept Away," which tells of a female ornithologist who falls in love on the blustery island of Unst, and "The Kind Assassin," about a bored and loveless radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep-and who may never sleep again.
Listeners will love the comedic drama and lyrical beauty of the title story, about a young man who must contend with a vicious feral cat from Africa that he has won in a bar bet. And who could resist the gripping power of "Dogology," about a young woman in suburban New England who becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays, or "Chicxulub," a nerve-shattering tale of collision, whether it be that of a young woman with a car or of huge objects from outer space slamming into the planet. With these compelling and always entertaining stories, Boyle proves once again that he is "a writer who can take any topic and spin a yarn too good to put down" (Men's Journal).
Listeners will love the comedic drama and lyrical beauty of the title story, about a young man who must contend with a vicious feral cat from Africa that he has won in a bar bet. And who could resist the gripping power of "Dogology," about a young woman in suburban New England who becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays, or "Chicxulub," a nerve-shattering tale of collision, whether it be that of a young woman with a car or of huge objects from outer space slamming into the planet. With these compelling and always entertaining stories, Boyle proves once again that he is "a writer who can take any topic and spin a yarn too good to put down" (Men's Journal).
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Reviews for Tooth and Claw and Other Stories
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The stories collected in this volume under the title Tooth and claw, and other stories did not interest me at all. I have read other work by T. C. Boyle with pleasure, and therefore really tried to like this collection of his fiction. I read some, mainly negative reviews, and went back to stories that were praised, or considered relatively good by other readers, but even those stories had no meaning for me. There was not any way, except for the first story, to create a clear meaning for individual stories, and I could not establish an overarching theme.Nothing seems to be wrong with the writing; it is just that the stories seem to hold no interest.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I almost always enjoy TC Boyle's short stories. this was no exception.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was next up on the T.C. Boyle short story collection lineup when I want to dip into a couple stories when I'm being indecisive on what to read. At least I dip into the next collection in the chronological lineup. So some of these stories I have read quite a while ago now. It's another collection that is less experimental than his earlier stories. Now they are leaning more animalistic or ecological. So this is Boyle's sixth story collection and probably my least favorite of the six so far, but they are still very very good stories. There is just a high bar at this point. Less dark than 'After the Plague' but some of the stories here kind of left things hanging when the main plot point seemed to start, which might be why I consider some of these not as good. If my main complaint with stories is "not long enough" then I guess that is a good complaint to have about writing. Still, spectacular sentences in these solid stories.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Engaging stories (with the audiobook read by the author) about the interplay of humanity with nature. The title story finds a man discovering the wild in a wild cat: following this is a story about a woman's journey alone on horseback through the early US as she discovers the power of water in nature; there's a funny story about the ultimate master controlled community; lots of stories revolve around men discovering the wild power of alcohol; and the collection ends with what T. C. Boyle says is his most autobiographical story about a young man - what would today be called a slacker- who becomes a teacher merely to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam War and who discovers the wilds of both drugs and floundering high school students.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As with all his short story collection, Boyle creates many compelling worlds, characters and situations. And the beauty of short stories is that, although some may not pan out over the long haul, they are perfect for their own little niche of 15-20 pages.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I thought "When I Woke Up...," "Jubilation," and "Chicxulub" were exceptionally good. The rest were all strong but didn't grab me quite like Boyle sometimes can.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oddly passive for Boyle--normally his short story collections are full of razors and nails and ragged ends of broken bats--but this one goes against the cover and title. Still good, but TC is mellowing out...