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.
