TY - SOUND AU - Boyle,T.Coraghessan TI - I walk between the raindrops: stories SN - 9780063052925 PY - 2022/// CY - [United States] PB - Harper Collins Publishers KW - United States KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Short stories N1 - Title from container; Compact disc; Performed by a full cast N2 - In the title story, 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." A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination ER -