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[*Read by the author - T.C. Boyle]
T. C. Boyle is one of the most renowned storytellers of the modern era. His writing is inventive and wholly original, qualities that are evident in these fourteen tales -- previously unpublished in book form.

By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes. They find Boyle engagingly testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance, whether it's a group of giants being bred as weapons of war in a fictional Latin American country, a Russian woman who ignores dire warnings in returning to her radiation-contaminated home, a hermetic writer who gets more than a break in his routine when he travels to receive a minor award, or a man in a California mountain town who goes a little too far in his concern for a widow.

In ''The Marlbane Manchester Musser Award,'' Boyle reveals a writer's dismay when a simple trip is turned upside down by a stranger. ''Los Gigantes'' tells the story of a group of giants being used to create a new breed of soldier for the military. In ''The Way You Look Tonight'' Boyle examines the way our perceptions of our loved ones can change on a dime with just a simple revelation. And in ''Sic Transit'' he shows how quickly we can become consumed with curiosity.

Boyle travels the world in these stories, from California to Russia, Latin America to upstate New York, but his adept touch at depicting the lives of his characters never wavers.