I Walk Between the Raindrops

In his new collection, T. C. Boyle explores societal facets such as greed, excess, parenthood, the digital world, and mortality with empathy and humor.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A vibrant, exhilarating, and thought-provoking 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 enigmatic depths of American masculinity. An elderly man and his neighbor strike up a friendship that might turn out to be a more cunning battle of wits than he initially suspects. On Valentine's Day, a man waits for his wife in a bar and is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant. In his electrifying prose, T. C. Boyle delves into a myriad of societal aspects: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world, and our understanding of mortality. With a ventriloquist's flair, he inhabits the minds of his characters, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humor.

A vibrant, exhilarating, and thought-provoking 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 enigmatic depths of American masculinity. An elderly man and his neighbor strike up a friendship that might turn out to be a more cunning battle of wits than he initially suspects. On Valentine's Day, a man waits for his wife in a bar and is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant. In his electrifying prose, T. C. Boyle delves into a myriad of societal aspects: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world, and our understanding of mortality. With a ventriloquist's flair, he inhabits the minds of his characters, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humor.

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526631343