Tooth and Claw

<b>A fierce [and] funny (<i>Entertainment Weekly) </i>collection of fourteen stories exploring humanity's wild side from the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Tortilla Curtain</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>Whether Boyle is breaking your heart or making you laugh you just don't care because he is so darned good at it.--<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b> <p/>The fourteen stories gathered here display Boyle's imaginative muscle emotional sensitivity and astonishing range. There are whimsical tales including Swept Away which tells of a female ornithologist who falls in love on the blustery island of Unst and The Kind Assassin about a bored and loveless radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep--and who may never sleep again. In the title story a young man must contend with a vicious feral cat from Africa that he won in a bar bet. And in Dogology a young woman in suburban New England becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays. <p/>Muscular provocative and blurring the boundaries between humans and nature the funny and the shocking <i>Tooth and Claw</i> is Boyle at his best.