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The Harder They Come
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Acclaimed New York Times best-selling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and antiauthoritarianism inherent in the American character.
Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people - an aging ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover - as they careen toward an explosive confrontation.
On a vacation cruise to Central America with his wife, 70-year-old Sten Stensen unflinchingly kills a gun-wielding robber menacing a busload of senior tourists. The reluctant hero is relieved to return home to Fort Bragg, California, after the ordeal - only to find that his delusional son, Adam, has spiraled out of control.
Adam has become involved with Sara Hovarty Jennings, a hardened member of the Sovereign Citizens' Movement, right-wing anarchists who refuse to acknowledge the laws and regulations of the state, considering them to be false and nonapplicable. Adam's senior by some 15 years, Sara becomes his protector and inamorata. As Adam's mental state fractures, he becomes increasingly schizophrenic - a breakdown that leads him to shoot two people in separate instances. On the run, he takes to the woods, spurring the biggest manhunt in California history.
As he explores a father's legacy of violence and his powerlessness in relating to his equally violent son, T. C. Boyle offers unparalleled psychological insights into the American psyche. Inspired by a true story, The Harder They Come is a devastating and indelible novel from a modern master.
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De: T. C. Boyle
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The Terranauts
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Lynde Houck, Joy Osmanski, Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, 40 miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the Earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the Terranauts, have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-Earth colony. Their sealed three-acre compound comprises five biomes - rain forest, savanna, desert, ocean, and marsh - and enough wildlife, water, and vegetation to sustain them.
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Aggravating Narrator Ruins Great Book
- De Laura Coen en 12-02-16
De: T. C. Boyle
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Blue Skies
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful boyfriend, Cat decides that she needs a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like “jewelry, living jewelry.” But when the budding social influencer finally gives in to impulse, buying a Burmese python from a local pet shop, she sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire events that culminates in one of the most memorable denouements in recent fiction, one that ensnares her entire family, from her eco-obsessed parents, Ottilie and Frank, to her frat-boy-turned-husband, Todd.
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Classic T.C. Boyle Novel
- De Lisa en 11-10-23
De: T. C. Boyle
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- De Christopher Meeks en 05-25-19
De: T. C. Boyle
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I Walk Between the Raindrops
- Stories
- De: T.C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T.C. Boyle, Cheryl Smith, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there and it came for him.”
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Unexpected short stories
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: T.C. Boyle
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The Women
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 18 h y 35 m
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Told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, this imaginative account of Frank Lloyd Wright's raucous life blazes with Boyle's trademark wit and invention. Boyle's protean voice captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.
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The Best of Boyle
- De Rebecarol en 06-13-09
De: T. C. Boyle
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When the Killing's Done
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the Channel Islands’ endangered native creatures from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert the plans of Alma and her colleagues.
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Worth the effort
- De Amazon Customer en 03-13-11
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Terranauts
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Lynde Houck, Joy Osmanski, Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, 40 miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the Earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the Terranauts, have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-Earth colony. Their sealed three-acre compound comprises five biomes - rain forest, savanna, desert, ocean, and marsh - and enough wildlife, water, and vegetation to sustain them.
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Aggravating Narrator Ruins Great Book
- De Laura Coen en 12-02-16
De: T. C. Boyle
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Talk to Me
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Stacey Glemboski
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it. What if it were possible to speak to the members of another species - to converse with them?
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Themes Better Covered Elsewhere
- De Indyquaz en 12-11-21
De: T. C. Boyle
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Riven Rock
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Michael Kirby
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Locked up for the rest of his life at Riven Rock, the family's California mansion, Stanley is treated by a series of confident doctors determined to cure him.
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masterful
- De Luke A Werkhoven en 06-17-24
De: T. C. Boyle
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A Friend of the Earth
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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A Friend of the Earth opens in the year 2025, as Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tidewater ekes out a bleak living in southern California, managing a rock star's private menagerie. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most of the major mammalian species are extinct.
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- De Luke en 04-26-07
De: T. C. Boyle
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San Miguel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island. On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle’s haunting new novel.
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First time T.C. Boyle reader
- De Sharon en 12-11-12
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Lie
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 33 m
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Lonnie is tired. He's tired of his job, the monotony of it, and tired of the predictability ofhis home life now that he's a father. It's a day like every other day, and hecan't face the inevitability of it all. So he lies. It's a small lie, but heknows small lies become big ones. He knows it as soon as he says his daughteris in the hospital. But he can't stop himself, and he can't stop the lie fromtaking on a life of its own.
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I didn’t want it to end.
- De Terry Vogel en 11-04-20
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The Tortilla Curtain
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered, sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: He is a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine.
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What a talented author & narrator!
- De Julie en 09-13-06
De: T. C. Boyle
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Harder They Come
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- Sharon
- 05-25-15
Based on a true story
I live in Northern California where the events that this book is based on played out. It was a scary situation and the local media could focus on nothing else at the time. I am a T.C. Boyle fan, and familiar with the story, but I thought I would pass on this book. I was tempted though, so listened to the sample, at which point I became hooked!
This book is a very good read from page one through the finish. The story pulls you right in and never lets you go. Graham Hamilton does a great job of narrating. This is T.C. Boyle's 25th book, and I hope he keeps right on writing. He is a master.
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- Richard Delman
- 01-21-16
Mr. Boyle has been doing this for way too long now
Is there anything you would change about this book?
It's at least twice as long as it needs to be. 25 years ago, I thought that Mr. Boyle was the best short story writer in this country. However, his novels were consistently overblown, almost all of them drawn from the far left side of the environmental movement, with a few biographies thrown in. The novels got really old really fast. The best one though, Drop City, is truly one of the greatest books I have read, in print or in audio. If you want to read this author at his very best, rather than muck around with this mediocre stuff, please read Drop City. It is all downhill from there. And there is a lot of it: Mr. Boyle is incredibly prolific.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
I have to admit that I lost interest in the book (that is, if I ever had it), with about 90 minutes left to read. Maybe I'll go back at some time and see if it is worth reading. What leads up to it, though, is inconsequential and about a millimeter away from boring.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
I've never heard of Mr. Hamilton before, and now I know why. His talents are limited. He doesn't vary his rate or tone of speech much, which is kind of anti-dramatic. Adam, who I suppose is the protagonist, is a psychotic who is unlikeable in the extreme. The people around him are weak and pathetic, including his father, his high school principal. There is one excellent scene, in which he and his wife are on a bus tour of some Central American tour when they get robbed in a crime which was clearly thought up by the idiots who drive the bus, sell the souvenirs, and run the food store. Mr. Stephenson (is that right?) becomes a superhero for a moment, saving all of the tourists and bravely beating up two of the criminals and killing the third. This is an excellent scene, but I don't find another one in about forty chapters. Not a healthy ratio.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No. Too much filler.
Any additional comments?
Nope.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-14-15
Believable
Compelling riveting could be a true story. I listen to it twice probably listen a third time . A contemporary story about real people ina realistic situations I loved it..
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- Benny Profane
- 01-26-16
Painful look at parenting, paranoia
Ultimately, this book looks with humanity and restraint at when a bad -- or just hopelessly screwed up -- kid happens to good parents. But it also nimbly equates the real problems of mental illness with the falsities invested in the militia/tea party movements.
Adam is paranoid because his brain disconnects with reality. His older, lonely lover Sara choose a sort of anti-government paranoia because it provides her grandiose visions of her small, uncertain life. It also provides her ready-made excuses when things don't go here way. As in when she gets ticketed for not wearing a seat belt or when she gets a DUI, she envisions government conspiracies -- “U.S. Illegitimate Government of America the Corporate” -- instead of her own stupidity.
Boyle presents the gibberish of the militia folks -- childish interpretations of the 14th amendment and the goofball ideas about the "Uniform Commercial Code" and "redemption theory," which can be dispelled with 15 minutes of time, an Internet connection and Google -- but he doesn't editorialize. He allows you to see two Saras -- the one who's trying to find her niche in life and then the one who envelops herself in a paranoid, anti-government mythology because she's not up to the first task.
It's curious that some readers/listeners seem baffled by the title. But it's pretty obvious, starting with the epigraph is from D. H. Lawrence -- “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer. It has never yet melted" -- and ending with sympathetic, 70-year-old father, Sten Stenson, nearly coming to blows in a parking lot with an obnoxious teenager.
While Sara's paranoid, foolish political beliefs do grievous damage to her, she does not embrace violence. Stem knows violence and it is within him but he fights against that impulse. Yet when you combine a troubled child becoming a man, the American gun culture that doesn't bother to keep guns away from a trouble children becoming dangerous men, tragedy happens.
Boyle's restraint is perfect here. He's not fight fixing. He's describing a part of the present American character, which is drifting away from rationality and civility toward something that should worry us all.
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- stephen
- 03-15-16
not one of his best but Okay
seemed a little long and disjointed never developed an infinity for the main character although I enjoyed the portrayal of the lost coast.
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- Mildred Witte
- 09-20-15
Unforgettable
A novel so rare and true that it seems wrong to have merely listened to it. The closing lines are as beautiful and meaningful as Fitzgerald's " boats against the current". I am grateful for the mind and heart of this magnificent author.
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- Pipes Family
- 04-06-16
Hard to like the characters
Unemotional, hyper masculine Sten
Sarah is a conspiracy theorist who doesn't use rational thought
Adam is a schizo gun freak survivalist prepper
I found it hard to find much in common with any of these characters.
It is frequently mentioned that Adam is always drinking or doing drugs, if that is so then why doesn't he show the effects of it more often? He seems to always be the same character whether he is loaded or not. And as any addict can tell you, that's not how an addicted person works.
Great story telling though, really dark and twisted novel that had me going until the very end
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- Betty Groepper
- 02-06-16
Dark and unsettling but a compulsive read.
Would you consider the audio edition of The Harder They Come to be better than the print version?
yes
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Most of the time. Story line shifted between the present time and past.
What about Graham Hamilton’s performance did you like?
Just the right inflections.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Not really..
Any additional comments?
An insider's glimpse into the minds of a psychotic and those who view the government as the enemy.
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- FDWhitehawk
- 02-01-16
intense
A gripping emotional drama that kept me on the edge of my seat. very entertaining.
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- Ann
- 09-13-15
Dark, Multi-Layered and Entertaining
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A few days after I finished listening to The Harder They Come, there was a news story complete with a photo of a young man with crazy eyes. The author has a knack for making current events real. Reading the news felt a bit personal.
TC Boyle is one of my favorite authors. He is such a chameleon, he can believably write as any character, male and female. His work is funny, sad, insightful and thrilling. Sometimes all at once. From what I've read about him, he's a grounded person with a family and a comfortable life. I would love to know his secret for having so much insight and keeping it in perspective. Channel it into a productive pursuit.
I enjoyed the history lesson inside this book as well as the fictional tale. There is so much going on in every chapter. The tension builds darkly, and you know something really bad is going to happen. The book moves steadily towards this, unstoppable. Adam is no Coulter and the Wild West was a long time ago.
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