I Walk Between the Raindrops

A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from ''one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today'' (Lionel Shriver) For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neighbour enter strike up a friendship that might a more sinister battle of wits than he first thinks. A man, waiting for his wife in a bar on Valentine''s Day, is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant.In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters'' minds with a ventriloquist''s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.>

Product details

• Authors: T. C. Boyle, Boyle T. C.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781526631343
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-3134-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction: general and literary, Literary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary