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The Inner Circle
by Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0670033448
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033447
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. orange cloth to spine, red papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 418 pp, first edition.
Synopsis
Fresh on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-nominated novel, Drop City , T.C. Boyle has spun an even more dazzling tale that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. Boyle’s tenth novel, The Inner Circle has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of documenting . . . well, almost. A love story, The Inner Circle is narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an extraordinarily charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered hislife’s true calling: sex. As a member of Kinsey’s “inner circle” of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibited—and problematic for his marriage. For in his later years Kinsey (who behind closed doors is a sexual enthusiast of the first order) ever more recklessly pushed the boundaries both personally and professionally. While Boyle doesn’t resist making the most of this delicious material, The Inner Circle is at heart a very moving and very loving look at sex, marriage, and jealousy that will have readers everywhere reassessing their own relationships—because, in the end, “love is all there is.”
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58194
- Title
- The Inner Circle
- Author
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket Octavo
- ISBN 10
- 0670033448
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033447
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Octavo
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