Blue Skies (eBook)

A Novel

T. C. Boyle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
384 Seiten
Liveright (Verlag)
978-1-324-09303-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Boyles satire has lost none of its edge over the course of a nearly half-century literary career . . . [Blue Skies is] an expert blend of suspense, terror and, occasionally, very black humor . . . this fiercely honest writer shows us what he sees and invites his readers to draw their own conclusions."e; Wendy Smith, Washington PostFrom best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change.Boyle has long been one of the most exciting and intelligent storytellers in the United States. Ron Charles, Washington PostDenied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fianc, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like jewelry, living jewelry to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young Burmie she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival.Brilliantly imaginative . . . in a terrifying way (Annie Proulx), Blue Skies follows in the tradition of T. C. Boyles finest novels, combining high-octane plotting with mordant wit and shrewd social commentary. Here Boyle, one of the most inventive voices in contemporary fiction, transports us to water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, where Cat and her hapless, nature-loving familyincluding her eco-warrior parents, Ottilie and Frank; her brother, Cooper, an entomologist; and her frat-boy-turned-husband, Toddare struggling to adapt to the new normal, in which once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters happen once a week and drinking seems to be the only way to cope.But theres more than meets the eye to this compulsive family drama. Lurking beneath the banal faade of twenty-first-century Californians and Floridians attempting to preserve normalcy in the face of violent weather perturbations is a caricature of materialist American society that doubles as a prophetic warning about our planets future. From pet bees and cricket-dependent diets to massive species die-off and pummeling hurricanes, Blue Skies deftly explores the often volatile relationships between humans and their habitats, in which the only truism seems to be that things always get worse.An eco-thriller with teeth, Boyles Blue Skies is at once a tragicomic satire and a prescient novel that captures the absurdity and inexpressible sadness at the heart of everything.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: age of the internet • American • American Life • California • climate change • dark humor • disaster • Dramedy • dysfunctional family • Environment • Fiction • Florida • Funny • funny book • influencers • post-pandemic • Satire • Snake • tech parody • tragicomedy • TWINS • Wit
• ISBN-10: 1-324-09303-X / 132409303X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-09303-9 / 9781324093039