T.C. Boyle Stories II: Volume II

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When putting together the first volume of the Collected Stories for publication in 1998, I chose a rather whimsical arrangement, in three sections, of the sixty-eight pieces that made the final cut. The sections were titled “Love,” “Death,” “And Everything in Between,” and the stories collected therein represented a period of some twenty-five years’ work, from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s. The present volume collects the stories written since then, though some pieces that appeared in the earlier volume—“Mexico,” “Juliana Cloth” and “Little Fur People”—should rightly have been included in 2001’s After the Plague and so in this collection, but were published in the first volume at the suggestion of my editor so as to make T.C. Boyle Stories something more than simply a reassemblage. (In keeping with this precedent, Part IV of this book, A Death in Kitchawank, presents an entirely new collection of stories written since the publication of Wild Child in 2009.)

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