{"product_id":"greasy-lake-and-other-stories","title":"Greasy Lake and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eMythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)—from the award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in “All Shook Up,” he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in “On for the Long Haul,” he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948032233760,"sku":"9780140077810","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780140077810.jpg?v=1763598103","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/greasy-lake-and-other-stories","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}