{"title":"T. C. Boyle","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-circulo-intimo","title":"The inner circle","description":"Behind the scenes of scientific research still debated today, an idea that revolutionized the notion of sexuality. A critical success upon its publication, TC Boyle's The Inner Circle is the result of extensive research by the author; it reveals the behind-the-scenes story of Alfred Kinsey's project—which aimed to gain scientific knowledge of human sexual activity and gave rise to the famous Kinsey Report. A novel that explores the emergence, development, and spread of sexuality in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, John Milk is a shy college student who has never had much contact with sexual practices, much less with women. But his life changes completely when he meets Indiana University zoology professor Alfred Kinsey, known as Prok to his intimates. Gradually, without realizing it, Milk becomes professionally, emotionally, and physically involved with the professor, becoming the first member of the trusted circle of scholars of the project founded for sexual research. As a member of Kinsey's \"inner circle\" of researchers, Milk (along with his beautiful wife) is called upon to participate in increasingly uninhibited sexual experiments—and ones that are problematic for his marriage. In his final years, the famous scientist (who was privately a first-rate sexual enthusiast) tests his personal and professional limits in increasingly reckless ways. The novel is not intended as a biography. Rather, it is the construction of a fictional plot against the backdrop of historical facts, and it deals, above all, with how the narrator, John, joins the project and attempts to reconcile a life considered normal with his monogamous wife, raised religiously under the heel of the moral values that Kinsey execrates and seeks to overturn. Despite Alfred Kinsey's undeniable genius, by the end of the book, the reader will surely ask themselves: were all his actions in favor of the research, or was the scientist using the project to fulfill his most intimate fantasies? \"TC Boyle is a shrewd and courageous novelist, and Alfred Kinsey is a perfect figure to portray him.\" (The New York Times Book Review) \"You won't want to take your eyes off the pages of this book.\" (The Washington Post) \"The Inner Circle may initially shock readers with its sexual themes, but they are soon swept up in the thrill of Boyle's reflections on love, marriage and jealousy.\" (San Francisco Chronicle)","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176311800060,"sku":"9788528615791","price":89.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4643095bc7f1853b577c605823873b56.jpg?v=1778325515"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/t-c-boyle.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}