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With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
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The lives of the various characters in the 44 Scotland Street series continue in this volume: Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love; the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster, faces the consequences of unbridled bliss, and meets a large Glaswegian gangster bearing gifts. Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her son Bertie harbours an unsuitable ambition. The gloriously vain Bruce discovers...
3) Doors open
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Three friends descend upon an art auction and concoct a plan to "liberate" several paintings from the National Gallery. As enterprising girlfriends, clever detectives, a crime boss, seductive auctioneers and a Hell's Angel named Hate enter the picture, this fast-paced story of second guesses and double crosses keeps changing the picture.
4) The red door
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Investigating the death of a Lancaster woman in the summer of 1920, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge links her demise to the disappearance of a man who was wrongly believed to have gone to serve in World War I.
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