{"product_id":"greasy-lake-other-stories-9780140077810","title":"Greasy Lake \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): T. C. Boyle\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen \"fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)--from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"The Hector Quesadilla Story,\" T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in \"All Shook Up,\" he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in \"On for the Long Haul,\" he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408422887575,"sku":"9780140077810","price":1890.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780140077810.webp?v=1767309866","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/greasy-lake-other-stories-9780140077810","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}