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As he portrays environmentalists, surrogate mothers and drug dealers, "Boyle proves himself in this second story collection truly a master of that genre. Wide-ranging in subject and variously comic, tragic, poignant and horrific, the stories are all compounds of imagination, vitality and... read more
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- Marie: Add a description of this character.
- Bayard
- Akaky Akakievich
- Calvin
- Joey
- Wendy
- Fran
- Arkson
- Ormand
- Hector Jr.
- Robert
- Cindy
- Petrovich
- Lorna
- Cullum
- Beersley
- Maunsell
- Dr. Ziss
- Dupuy
- Rodion
- Jeff
- Melissa
- Dorfman
- Erica
- Stephanie
- Nina
- Khrushchev
- Grace
- Egon
- Judy
- Beatrice
- Mishkin
- Gina
- Henry
- Kerensky
- Shuhei
- Colin
- Patrick
- Sam
- Zharyenoye
- Mr. Bagwas
- Paderewski
- Mrs. Shapiro
- Nathaniel
- Mrs. Tuxton
- Irma
- Eugene
- Nick
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There was a time when courtesy and winning ways went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste.
Authors & Contributors edit
- T. Coraghessan Boyle (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1985
ISBN: 0670805424
Page Count: 229
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1985
ISBN: 0670805424
Page Count: 229
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- Dewey: 813.54
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