'After the Plague is a formidable achievement. It is hip, slick and witty'. - Sunday Telegraph. ' A mercurial craftsman mustering some of his most assured work'. - FT. 'Boyle has the ability to create devastating situations, lighten them with a satirical gleam and then twist them into the kind of joke that makes your stomach hurt'. - Daily Mail. 'Boyle writes so beautifully it always feels natural, never forced'. - Guardian. Maverick, unpredictable and accomplished, T.C. Boyle has been called the 'trickster of American letters'. After the Plague is his latest collection of short stories - here are tales that superbly veer from the psychological to the slapstick, from surrealism to satire, once again proving him to be one of America's most formidable writers.