I Walk Between the Raindrops

T. C. Boyle's new collection explores society's facets, including greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world, and our understanding of mortality, with electric prose and empathy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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) presents a cross-country train ride that becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neighbor strike up a friendship that might be 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, including 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 humor.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 153 x 234 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526631374