Showing posts with label T. C. Boyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T. C. Boyle. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

First Lines: T. Coraghessan Boyle - The Road to Wellville


Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter, not to mention caramel-cereal coffee, Bromose, Nuttolene and some seventy-five other gastronomically correct foods, paused to level his gaze on the heavyset women in front of him.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

First Lines: T. C. Boyle - Water Music


At an age when most young Scotsmen were lifting skirts, plowing furrows and spreading seed, Mungo Park was displaying his bare buttocks to al-haj' Ali Ibn Fatoudi, Emir of Ludamar.