T. C. Boyle
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T. C. Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories.
In Understanding T. C. Boyle, Paul William Gleason writes, "Boyle's stories and novels take the best elements of Carver's minimalism, Barth's postmodern extravaganzas, Garcia Marquez's magical realism, O'Connor's dark comedy and moral seriousness, and Dickens' entertaining and strange plots and brings them to bear on American life in an accessible, subversive, and inventive way."
Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magical realism. His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment.
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Novels
- Water Music (1981)
- Budding Prospects : A Pastoral (1984)
- World's End (1987)
- East is East (1990)
- The Road to Wellville (1993)
- The Tortilla Curtain (1995)
- Riven Rock (1998)
- A Friend of the Earth (2000)
- Drop City (2003)
- The Inner Circle (2004)
- Talk Talk (2006)
- The Women (2009)
- When the Killing's Done (2011)
- San Miguel (2012)
- The Harder They Come (2015)
- The Terranauts (2016)
- Outside Looking In (2019)
- Talk to Me (2021)
Short fiction
Collections
- Descent of Man (1979)
- Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985)
- If the River Was Whiskey (1989)
- Without a Hero (1994)
- T.C. Boyle Stories (1998), compiles four earlier volumes of short fiction plus seven previously uncollected stories
- After The Plague (2001)
- Tooth and Claw (2005)
- The Human Fly (2005), previously published stories collected as young adult literature
- Wild Child & Other Stories (2010)
- T.C. Boyle Stories II (2013), compiles three volumes of short fiction (After the Plague, Tooth and Claw, Wild Child) with a new collection of 14 stories entitled "Death in Kitchawank"
- The Relive Box & Other Stories (2017)
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