Budding Prospects: A Pastoral

by T. C. Boyle

Overview

An “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California

All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis Sativa and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they haven't reckoned on nosy Northern California-style neighbors, torrential rain, demands of the flesh, and Felix's improbable new love, a wayward sculptress on whose behalf he undertakes a one-man vendetta against a drug-busting state trooper named Jerpbak. As their deal escalates through crises into nightmare, their dreams of easy money get nipped in the bud.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140299960
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/1990
Series:	Contemporary American Fiction
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	664,162
Product dimensions:	5.15(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer.  Since the late-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than one hundred short stories.  He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for this third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995.  His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

Hometown:

Santa Barbara California

Date of Birth:

December 2, 1948

Place of Birth:

Peekskill, New York

Education:

B.A. in music, State University of New York at Potsdam, 1970; Ph.D. in literature, Iowa University, 1977

Website:

http://www.tcboyle.com/

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Budding Prospects

“A first-rate picaresque adventure . . . a comic disaster on the classic and irresistible theme of the scalawag out-scalawagged.”
– The Los Angeles Times
 
“Energetically written and very funny . . . lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong.”
– The New York Times Book Review
 
“Boyle’s characters, for all their grotesqueries, are wonderful and believable, each scene is marvelously and sensually constructed.”
– The Dallas Morning News
 
“In an explosion of language, gaudy characters, and curious events, Boyle has provided his readers with a riotous Rabelaisian romp.”
– The Seattle Times

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