Blue Skies - Boyle, T C

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Résumé :
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fianc?, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like jewelry, living jewelry to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young Burmie she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival.

Brilliantly imaginative . . . in a terrifying way (Annie Proulx), Blue Skies follows in the tradition of T. C. Boyle's finest novels, combining high-octane plotting with mordant wit and shrewd social commentary. Here Boyle, one of the most inventive voices in contemporary fiction, transports us to water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, where Cat and her hapless, nature-loving family-including her eco-warrior parents, Ottilie and Frank...

Biographie:
T. C. Boyle is an American novelist and a longtime New Yorker contributor. He is the author of multiple award-winning novels and short stories, including The Tortilla Curtain, Blue Skies, and No Way Home. He lives in Santa Barbara, California....

Sommaire:
her brother, Cooper, an entomologist...