Boyle, T.C.

Riven Rock.

New York, Viking, 1998. 15 cm x 22 cm. XII, 466 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Unrevised proof edition. Binding slightly damaged in centre of book.

“This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle’s customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of ‘power, beauty, wealth and prestige’. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women’s suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole.” (Amazon)

Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published fourteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988, for his third novel, World’s End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: 20th Century Literature · American Literature · Novel
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670878812
• Inventory Number: 72607AB

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