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Since the 1980s, T. Coraghessan Boyle has been challenging readers with a smart, surreal style that manages to satirize America's past, present and future all at once. As Barbara Kingsolver wrote of him, "What Boyle does, and does well, is lay on the line our national cult of hypocrisy."
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Fact File
| Name:
T. C. Boyle
Also Known As:
Thomas John Boyle; T. Coraghessan Boyle
Current Home:
Santa Barbara California
Date of Birth:
December 2, 1948
Place of Birth:
Peekskill, New York
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B.A. in music, State University of New York at Potsdam, 1970; Ph.D. in literature, Iowa University, 1977
Awards:
PEN/Faulkner Award, best novel of the year for World's End, 1988; several O. Henry awards for short stories; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988
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2003 National Book Award Finalist
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| | Drop City
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
Boyle's ninth novel explores the disastrous tensions that result when the hippies of Drop City -- a California commune circa 1970 with a charismatic, dangerous leader -- must pull up stakes and relocate to the eerie, frigid town of Boynton, Alaska. According to Kirkus, it's "one of Boyle's best."
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Friends of the Earth
| Corn Flakes and How They Got That Way
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| | A Friend of the Earth
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T.C. Coraghessan Boyle
Boyle, a fervent environmentalist, makes eco-destruction the central theme in this novel, which is set in 2025 and spares not even tree-huggers from its sharp satire. In interviews and writings, Boyle has mentioned several eco-titles he admires, below.
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| | The Road to Wellville
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
For a lighter sampling of Boyle's black humor and unique view of American mores, check out his novel about the quackery perpetrated by cereal king John Harvey Kellogg at his early-20th-century spa.
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