num_pages: 240
description: In sixteen stories, T.C. Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle introduces us to a death-defying stuntman who rides across the country strapped to the axle of a Peterbilt, and to a retired primatologist who can’t adjust to the “civilized” world. He chronicles the state of romance that requires full-body protection in a disease-conscious age and depicts with aching tenderness the relationship between a young boy and his alcoholic father. These magical and provocative stories mark yet another virtuoso performance from one of America’s most supple and electric literary inventors.
language: English
title: If the River Was Whiskey
titlecomplete: If the River Was Whiskey
genres: Short Stories, Literary Fiction, American Fiction, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1288
publisher: Penguin Books