Budding Prospects
by T. C. Boyle
ISBN: 0140081518
ISBN-13: 9780140081510
Format: Paperback
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Summary
At 31, Felix Nasmith is a lifelong loser, but finally he gets his chance to shine when he and a couple of particularly manic friends (who include an ex-CIA agent who is now a gourmet cook) come up with a scheme to get rich quick by growing marijuana. Determined to harvest a half-million-dollar crop over the course of a summer, they get involved in a variety of nightmarish and/or comic events before their eventual downfall. T. C. Boyle's second novel (1984) is a kind of ironic pastoral, from which his hero emerges no richer but perhaps with a gain in wisdom.
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"The dope farm teaches him the merits of hard work as an end in itself-and it also makes him realize he wants something else from life than the money he'd craved at the start of the novel...lusty in every sense of the word, healthy, invigorating, and strong." -- Michael Gorra
-- New York Times Book Review
"The hippie kingdom has been succeeded by...hard times, and T. Coraghassan Boyle has written a shrewd and funny novel about the rites of historical passage." -- Richard Eder
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"It's as if Boyle has suddenly plumbed the limits of his own irony here, and the novel that he offers us now is a kind of token of his own good faith. Nowhere in his previous work has he displayed such generosity. In a writer of his age and caliber, this is a very promising sign indeed." -- R. Pohl
-- Buffalo News
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin
Published date: 1985
Pages: 326
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Budding Prospects (Contemporary American fiction)
T.C. Boyle
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1985-05-07. Paperback. Very Good. We suggest the use of priority shipping, where available. Media mail can take up to three weeks for delivery. We ship every business day. Used books may not contain original publisher materials, ie cd and infotrak ( more information) Offered by textbook recycle (United States)
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Budding Prospects
Boyle, T.C
Penguin, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. --- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ( more information) Offered by The Recycled Book Shop (Canada)
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BUDDING PROSPECTS A Pastoral
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, SIGNED
Softcover. 0140081518 . Penguin, c1984, paperback, 1987 reprint, Very Good, SIGNED by Boyle on the title page, 326 pages, ISBN 0140081518, FICTION; E1222; Signed by Author(s) . ( more information) Offered by m.l. granlund - bookseller (United States)
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Budding prospects: A pastoral (Contemporary American fiction)
Boyle, T
1985 softcover copy as pictured (Penguin Books), 326 pp. Cover shiny, spine tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Vintage out of print edition. Ships now/free package tracking number. ( more information) Offered by J. M. Thomasson (United States)
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Budding Prospects (Contemporary American fiction)
Boyle, T.C
Penguin (Non-Classics). PAPERBACK. 0140081518 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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