Talk Talk

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There's more than one to way to take a life in this masterful thriller from one of the greatest voices in American contemporary fiction Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out, many of them dangerous. But the panic that grips her is not because she has been caught. She knows there has been a terrible mistake - she didn't commit any of these crimes. As Dana and her lover Bridger set out to clear her name and find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense, they begin to test the life they have built together to its limits.

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A complete triumph ... An energetic combination of detective story and road trip * Daily Telegraph *
Darkly humorous depictions of how any person can be victimised by identity thieves * Sunday Times *
[Boyle] is unashamedly an entertainer, peerless in his ability to swing between high and low culture * Time Out *
Talk Talk stands out as nothing short of an uncomfortable masterpiece - as simultaneously overwhelming, treacherous, beautiful and boiling over with hellacious revelation as its ultimate subject: life in twentieth-century America * Los Angeles Times *
Talk Talk opens at full throttle and never slackens ... A rage so intense that it overtakes reasons runs through the book like a superhighway * San Francisco Chronicle *
No American novelist can touch him ... the novel flies along on the power of Boyle's propulsive and exquisitely perceptive prose * Entertainment Weekly *
Wonderful ... a truly wild read * Daily Express *

Author Bio

T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California. tcboyle.com