Greasy Lake and Other Stories

Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live ” ( The New York Times )—from the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain .   “Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.”— The Los Angeles Times Book Review   In “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballp