Descent of Man

Seventeen short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain, “the sort of writer who inspires even poker-faced writers to grin and start dusting off their superlatives” (The Washington Post Book World).

“Descent of Man is loaded with energetic language. . . . Boyle is capable of the sublime.”—The New York Times Book Review

In seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, T.C. Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate...