FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2004
"A great subject imperfectly tamed and controlled. Well worth reading, but not Boyle's best. "
The career of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, as seen in Boyle's rangy, entertaining tenth novel--which bears a strong resemblance to his 1993 blockbuster,
The Road to Wellville.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2003
"Probably the fullest picture of the hippie culture of the late '60s since Marge Piercy's early fiction, and one of Boyle's best."
Boyle's protean imagination works overtime in his thickly plotted ninth novel, a big, racy tale of the conflict between a radical utopian commune's idealistic visions and the simpler imperatives of survival in the Alaskan wilderness.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 10, 2001
"A bit darker and harsher, perhaps, than earlier collections, but on the whole pretty much the same kind of thing this writer has been cranking out since the late '70s. If you like Boyle, you won't be able to resist."
Aging, estrangement, generational conflict, sexual rivalry, irrational violence--oh, and the destruction of the world as we know it: these are the recurring themes explored with mordant comic finesse in 16 exuberantly in-your-face stories.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2000
"The comedy and color are muted, though still unmistakably present, in a daring story that blends the contrasting extremes of Boyle's energetic sensibility in a way that bodes well for his always interesting and highly readable fiction."
Boyle's eighth novel reenters the risky territory of social concern and criticism that has proved a trap for his least characteristic, and weakest, fiction (
East is East, 1990; The Tortilla Curtain, 1995).
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 1998
"Boyle is of course too young for a summing-up, but this seems as good a time as any for a mid-career display of the antic wares of our most versatile and prolific radical comedian."
A fine, fat gathering of 68 stories, including the contents of Boyle's four collections (Without a Hero, 1994, etc.), four more, uncollected, tales, and three previously unpublished.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1998
"Vintage Boyle: a freakishly inventive black comedy, populated with irresistible eccentrics, that leaves a bracing and bitter aftertaste."
Division and separation are the dominant themes of Boyle's dark-hued and deftly plotted seventh novel, which bears strong incidental resemblances to his earlier World's End (1987) and The Road to Wellville (1993), though it displays a richer Dickensian brio throughout.
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