T.C. Boyle's stories range from the wickedly satirical to the tenderly insightful, and have received as much acclaim as his novels. IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY brings together 16 of his tragi-comic stories, including The Devil and Irv Cherniske (in which an ordinary businessman sells his soul to the devil), Thawing Out (a love story about a man whose amazing girlfriend belongs to the Polar Bear Club, which swims the Hudson in the dead of winter); and Modern Love, in which two world-class paranoid hypochondriacs try to have a sexual relationship with the help of a full-body condom and a battery of very unromantic precautionary tests. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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