The Relive Box and Other Stories

Name: The Relive Box and Other Stories
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: T.C. Boyle
ISBN: 9780062696069

Author: T.C. Boyle

Narrator: T.C. Boyle

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 10/03/2017

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Psychological, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an inimitable voice.From the collection's title story, featuring a Halcom X1520 Relive Box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past to "The Five-Pound Burrito," the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection speak to the humor, the pathos, and the struggle that is part of being human while relishing the whimsy of wordplay and the power of a story well told. In stories that span a variety of styles and genres, Boyle addresses the enduring concerns of the human mind and heart while taking on timely social concerns. The Relive Box is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling effort from a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society." (The New York Times)

About T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on October 24, 2017

TC Boyle is a fine novelist but, if you want to see this literary eagle soar, you need to read his short stories. Boyle shows why he’s one of the best short story writers in the world with his latest brilliant collection, The Relive Box and Other Stories. The stories themselves don’t sound like much......more

Goodreads review by Janet on June 10, 2019

This was a wonderful collection--TC Boyle brilliantly works the teeter-totter between comedy and tragedy. I especially enjoyed the futuristic stories like" The Relive Box" and "Are We Not Men?". In the former, a future America has exchanged current video games for a device which enables them to plug......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 14, 2018

Two stars for the occasional interesting take on future technology and events. Every female character was introduced by descriptors of how fuckable or not they work and most stories they only existed for the man to have sex with, cheat with, or withhold sex from. I wanted to feel any kind of emotion......more

Goodreads review by Lemar on May 14, 2022

Like Edgar Alan Poe, short stories for Boyle provide the optimal form for the one inch Bruce Lee punch. This collection, read effectively by the author, are knockouts. He delivers creative, fertile plots like Philip K. Dick but adds lol humor like Pynchon. I’m trying to throw around my favorite name......more

Goodreads review by Lars on December 12, 2020

As always with collections of short stories, there are better and not so good ones in this volume. I was impressed, for example, by the story in which a man takes a diary in the house of a deceased neighbor and thus gains insight into his tragic past. I was less taken by, for instance, the story of......more