Wild Child: And Other Stories Audiobook (Free)

There may be nobody much better than T. C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying visitors while at exactly the same time testing his heroes’ psychological and physical endurance.

The fourteen stories in this rich new collection screen T. C. Boyle’s astonishing range and imaginative muscle tissue. Nature is the dominating player in many of these stories, whether by means of a catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his mankind or in Boyle’s powerfully unique retelling of the tale about Wild Child: And Other Tales of Victor, the feral son who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France-a shifting and magical analysis of what it means to be human being. Other tales range from the dilemma of a guy who spins Homeric lies in order to stop going to function, compared to that of a girl who must babysit for a $250,000 cloned Afghan, towards the unhappy comedy of a child delivered to Mexican street vendors who is unable to feel pain. Brilliant, incisive, and usually engaging, Boyle’s brief stories display the mischievous laughter and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.