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Blue Skies

Von: T. C. Boyle
Gesprochen von: Alyssa Bresnahan
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Bloomsbury presents Blue Skies by T. C. Boyle, read by Alyssa Bresnahan.

The joyfully freewheeling, funny and profound new novel from ‘one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today’ (Lionel Shriver)

Welcome to America. On the east coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the west coast, California is engulfed with wildfire.

But for one family, the impending environmental disaster is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake; her pious brother Cooper is wrestling with a tic bite; and their mom Ottilie has resorted to cooking with crickets. Everyone is drinking too much – and the bugs seems to be disappearing. It seems as if it's anything but blue skies ahead...

A delightfully dark comedy of manners about family life at the end of the world, Blue Skies is a masterful new adventure from one of the America’s great comic writers.
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'Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences … His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented' – NEW YORK TIMES

'A virtuoso craftsman' – ANNIE PROULX

'Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges' – BARBARA KINGSOLVER©2023 T. C. Boyle Dystopien Literatur & Belletristik Satire Science Fiction
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A mordant eco-thriller ... Boyle, who lives in California, has drawn zany satire from looming environmental catastrophe in previous works, but there’s no denying that enhanced plausibility adds fresh layers of absurdism and melancholy to his latest novel
Darkly comic ... Could be a very influential book indeed
An accomplished family drama with a climate-crisis setting
Is climate change funny? Yes, in the brilliantly imaginative T. C. Boyle’s hands, in a terrifying way. Blue Skies is both comic and wrenching … A black arrow of unimaginable horror shoots through the novel’s centre and Boyle leads us to contemplate the “inexpressible sadness at the heart of everything” – and a morsel of the world’s inexpressible beauty (ANNIE PROULX)
Boyle writes with a youthful and sustained energy that parallels the zeal of his dreamers, and that ultimately attenuates their failures (CHRIS BACHELDER)
Darkly ironic ... an expert blend of suspense, terror and, occasionally, very black humour
Less a novel about what might be done about the climate crisis and more an accomplished family drama with a climate-crisis setting ... Boyle doesn’t offer his own clear answer. Maybe he doesn’t need to. At this stage of the climate game, it shouldn’t take much prodding to convince us that there’s plenty of work to do if we don’t want our own families to be forced to answer Boyle’s thought problem
Satiric and provocative ... skewering a contemporary environmental standoff modeled on real life events
Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences … His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented
You don’t feel cheated, reading Boyle – while the head knows there’s manipulation and artifice, the heart thumps
Boyle has a talent for describing events we may never experience with an arresting matter-of-factness. There is a thrill to this, and to not knowing where he will take us next (CHRIS POWER)
Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges (BARBARA KINGSOLVER)
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This is a well written family drama in tha case of current events. I really enjoy Boyle's writing style and his stories and liked this book as well. The only critic point I have is that many parts of the story there is too much doom and gloom.

Apocalypse now

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A well-researched, contemporary American family history. California and Florida are well-chosen examples for the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis, seen from the changing perspectives of the family members. T.C. Boyle's writing style keeps you hooked. Downplaying alcohol consumption is a well-established theme.

The narrator shows real talent in giving each protagonist a distinctive and - in my opinion - fitting voice. However, taken together, the disasters seem somewhat unlikely and too exaggerated. An exciting book that is easy to listen to.

Well written and spoken

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I consider myself a truly Boyle fan and having really enjoyed most of his books. But this story is simply overfraught with problems. I understand that himself living in California and witnessing the drought, the fires and the water problems he wants to show people the consequences of their actions. But it’s too much drama ….
I liked Alyssa Bresnahan’s
reading a lot!!

Too much of too many problems

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I’m really not sure what to make of it. Where was this going? Nowhere, right? The characters, all of them, pretty much unlikeable, right?

Not sure what to make of it really

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I used to love Boyle, his early novels especially. But now his sarcastic, totally negative outlook on the world is poisoning his talent. Yes, we know, planet earth is in a critical condition, he doesn't need to rub it in again and again. Yes, we know, people are stupid, superficial, egotistical, ridiculous. But is there really nothing at all, that gives us hope? Not, according to the author. So, if you want to get clinically depressed, I advise listening to this audio book!

Depressing

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