'Gulp it down; it beats getting drunk.' - Salman Rushdie on WATER MUSIC

'If Dickens were alive today he would be writing this sort of book.' -

Rosie Boycott, Books of the Year, The Times, on TORTILLA

CURTAIN'establishes Boyle as the equal of Robertson Davies and John

Irving. You only hope the Coen Brothers get the film rights, so that

this most thrillingly visual of American storytellers is given the movie

he deserves' Guardian on RIVEN ROCK 'surreal, daring and compassionate.

Easily one of the best books of this year' Daily Mail on A FRIEND OF

THE EARTH Maverick, unpredictable and accomplished, T.C. Boyle has been

called the 'trickster of American letters'. AFTER THE PLAGUE is his

latest collection of short stories - here are tales that superbly veer

from the psychological to the slapstick, from surrealism to satire, once

again proving him to be one of America's most formidable writers