Talk Talk - by T C Boyle (Paperback)

About the Book

Bestselling author and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Boyle recasts the battle of good and evil as an identity theft suspense story. As the tension mounts, Boyle drops crumbs of wisdom in his signature style, leading readers along a mysterious trail.

Book Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain comes "a tense thriller" (San Francisco) about a woman in desperate pursuit of the man who has stolen her identity.

"Boyle takes the reader on a wild ride. . . . No one writes better about the wages of American sin."--The New York Times Book Review

There's more than one way to take a life . . .

It was not until their first date that Bridger Martin learned that Dana Halter's deafness was profound and permanent. By then he was falling in love. Now she is in a courtroom, accused of assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, among other things. As Dana and Bridger eventually learn, William "Peck" Wilson has stolen Dana's identity and has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense. And as they set out to find him, they began to test to its very limits the life they have begun to build together.

Both a suspenseful chase across America and a moving story about language, love, and identity, Talk Talk is a masterful, mind-bending novel from one of America's most versatile and entertaining writers.

Review Quotes

"A tense thriller . . . Talk Talk opens at full throttle and never slackens."--San Francisco Chronicle

"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

"Funny, engaging, and suspenseful."--The New York Times

"His most exciting novel yet . . . Boyle knows how to drill down through the surface of everyday life into our core anxieties, and he knows how to write constantly charging, heart-thumping chase scenes."--The Washington Post

"Boyle takes the reader on a wild ride. . . . No one writes better about the wages of American sin."--The New York Times Book Review

"Starts off fast and never lets go . . . Boyle once again delivers an entertaining story with his usual laser commentary--about the way we identify ourselves and the role language plays."--USA Today

"Outrageously talented . . . When Boyle finds the delicate balance between his over-the-top satirical impulses and his startling sentimentality, no American novelist can touch him. . . [Talk Talk] flies along on the power of Boyle's propulsive and exquisitely perceptive prose."--Entertainment Weekly

"A chilling literary thriller."--New York Daily News

"A dandy novel, complete with the timely subject of identity theft. . . . Talk Talk rarely falters, the sentences sharp and the characters well defined."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Talk Talk makes the lurking danger of identify theft a dizzying reality. . . . A tricky novel of unlikely intimacies."--O, The Oprah Magazine

About the Author

T. C. Boyle is a novelist and regular contributor to The New Yorker. His novels include World's End and The Tortilla Curtain, and he has also published numerous collections of short stories. A Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Barbara.