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by T. C. Boyle
David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle's most compulsive, obsessive, and psychologically haunting novel in many years.
No Way Home tells the haunting story of Terrence Tully, an LA medical resident who is abruptly informed that his mother has died. Arriving at her home in a forlorn Nevada desert town, the naive doctor finds himself "like a swimmer caught in a riptide," drawn into a love triangle involving the manipulative, margarita–swilling receptionist Bethany and her ex–boyfriend Jesse, a vengeful middle–school teacher cocksure about his sexual prowess. There is indeed no way home for Tully, who cannot extricate himself from this aimless, post–twenty–something world where motorcycle races and violent brawls puncture the daily grind of nowhere jobs, aimless sex, and recreational highs. Is retribution, Boyle asks, a natural human instinct? Can sexual jealousy bring on a level of vengeance that is downright pathological? With its depiction of a desiccated town struggling in the dark shadows of a luminous, mountainous horizon, No Way Home is a tour de force by an American master at his finest.
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Thank you so much! None of my characters are based on anyone specifically. I take pieces from people I've known here and there. My mother is an inspiration for a lot of characters I write in some ways, though I've never explicitly based a character on her. In Saint of the Narrows Street , she def...
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"A relentless, electrifying, noirish tale of seduction, lies, denial, anger, violence, and capitulation set in the pitiless desert along the shores of the disastrously shrinking Lake Mead ... . A gripping, forensically exacting novel of pathological behavior, an MRI scan of human nature." ―Booklist
"For his tense latest, Boyle returns to the desert terrain that has long served as a crucible and moral testing ground in his novels ... None of the central characters emerges unscathed from Boyle's piercing depictions of their transactional and self-serving behavior. This sharply observed novel will keep readers turning the pages." ―Publishers Weekly
"The dark humor suggests Boyle is having more fun than his characters." ―Kirkus Reviews
"No Way Home will be remembered as one of T. C. Boyle's most vividly rendered narratives, a concerto of malaise and stymied hope in a town spurned by progress, his people caged by the brutal fate of those far from grace. Boyle has added an enthralling cinematic beauty to an oeuvre unlike any other in American literature, a novel that is certain to endear him to those in a new generation of readers for whom reading well matters." ―William Giraldi, author of Hold the Dark
"A wickedly absorbing tale of bodies and souls in passionate collision. Suspenseful, tough, and atmospheric, a contemporary western of the heart." ―Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air and Blood Will Out
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T.Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-eight books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010), When the Killing's Done (2011), San Miguel (2012), T.C. Boyle Stories II (2013), The Harder They Come (2015), The Terranauts (2016), The Relive Box (2017) and Outside Looking In (2019).
He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he is ...
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