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	T. Coraghessan Boyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coraghessan Boyle was born December 2, 1948 as Thomas John Boyle, in Peekskill, New York.
		Coraghessan Boyle (T.C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer.
		The T. Coraghessan Boyle Research Center (http://www.tcboyle.net/) (in English, French, German, and Dutch).
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/T.C._Boyle (501 words)

	T. Coraghessan Boyle : Highly Experimental
		Boyle started life as the child of working class parents in Peekskill, N.Y. His father had been raised in an orphanage; his mother had little education to speak of; there was a great deal of liquor in the house, but no books.
		When T.C. Boyle did his graduate work at the University of Iowa in the late 1970s, he was taught by the emerging writers of his day: Fred Exley, John Irving, Gail Godwin, Jack Leggett, Vance Bourjaily.
		And it was perhaps on the strength of that drug-high initiation that Boyle has since been characterized as a "countercultural" writer, a zany iconoclast intent on shattering the literary establishment.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301607_pf.html (511 words)

	Longman Anthology of Short Fiction Online Chapter 2 -- T. Coraghessan Boyle
		The critique of consumeristic, superficial contemporary American society is a theme that reviewers and critics have identified throughout T. Coraghessan Boyle’s fiction.
		Boyle is usually labeled a comic writer, and critics point to his humorous, unexpected mixture of icons and conventions from both literary and pop cultures.
		December 2000 interview in which Boyle talks about eco-sabotage and his sense of hopelessness about the future.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/gioialasf_abl/chapter2/custom24/deluxe-content.html (209 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: T. Coraghessan Boyle
		T.C. Boyle --- short for Tom Coraghessan Boyle (if you'd like to learn how to pronounce it, you'll have to visit his website) --- has blessed readers with another masterpiece to add to his prolific body of work, titled FRIEND OF THE EARTH.
		Boyle's answers will give readers a taste of his brilliant use of language as a well as a glimpse at the way he crafts his work.
		Boyle's great talents are his sense of the absurd and his wit.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-boyle-coraghessan.asp (5067 words)

	T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Coraghessan Boyle is such a deft conversationalist he probably could have given me an hour's worth of material without me even being there.
		Boyle has a television series in the works for next year—13 one-hour episodes of his stories.
		I've been on these tours, in hotels, and I have gone to the room I had the night before in a different city and inserted the key in the door of the wrong room.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/022698/20Q.Boyle.shtml (997 words)

	'Riven Rock' by T. Coraghessan Boyle
		T. Coraghessan Boyle loves these kinds of tales, the bizarre side of the American dream, like the weird John Kellogg from ``The Road to Wellville'' or the fate of the son of Admiral Richard Byrd, who froze to death in Baltimore.
		Boyle, 48, has produced a mountain of lush, overripe prose since his well-received short-story collection ``If the River Were Whiskey'' appeared in 1989.
		In ``Wellville,'' Boyle laughed at America's health-food fads; this time, he takes on psychiatry, as it was practiced in the early 20th century when McCormick was seized by his demons.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980125review89.asp (577 words)

	interrogation report: T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville
		Boyle presents the life of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg -- inventor of peanut butter and the corn flake -- at the height of his career and as the director of a famous sanitarium for biological living.
		Boyle is both showing the basis for our modern ideas and compulsions about health as well as criticizing both times.
		Boyle's main point seems to be that everyone needs to try extremes before deciding on how they will live.
	www.xmission.com /~jeffress/reports/b/B199417.html (131 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tortilla Curtain: Books: T. C. Boyle,T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle captures this essence within the two couples as their parallel lives draw closer and closer together till the climatic end which is overblown and feels more at home as a coda for a box-office movie.
		Boyle's technique of showcasing parallel lives is an effective tool in painting a vivid portrait of two very different groups of people who live so closer together, but are miles apart in their everyday reality.
		Apart from Boyle's considerable skill with words, his characters were vivid and the plot - though heavy on coincidence (hey, it worked for Dickens) - is interesting and keeps the reader focused till the end.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670856045?v=glance (3571 words)

	T. Coraghessan Boyle: Water Music
		Boyle's disclaimer made me expect something like a fantasy novel which borrows some of its ideas from a historical setting, something like Jill Paton Walsh's Knowledge of Angels, or a cavalier treatment of history like the very silly George MacDonald Fraser Pyrates.
		The Georgian England portrayed in Hogarth's etchings is the inspiration for Boyle's lusty historical novel.
		At first sight, Boyle's not might seem to be an attempt to cover up laziness, but he clearly must have done some research, at least reading up on Park.
	www.geocities.com /smcleish/rev1119.html (515 words)

	Reading Group Guide RIVEN ROCK by T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Irony, comedy, and hyperbole render this and Boyle's other novels unforgettable, transforming an historic footnote into a luminous, illuminating work of fiction that says as much about contemporary America as it does about the historical figures it depicts.
		Like many of Boyle's novels, Riven Rock is filled with examples of opposite extremes -- Puritanism and overt sexuality, refined and extremely base behavior, honesty and dishonesty, poverty and wealth -- and with incidents that can strain credulity.
		Boyle has a wonderful talent for turning history into fiction.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/riven_rock.asp (864 words)

	T. Coraghessan Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain - The Book Forum
		T.C. Boyle is the American writer formerly known as T. Coraghessan Boyle.
		Where you see Boyle reaching a 'tipping point' in his portrayal of the illegals, I felt that he was straying into a kind of SoCal magic realism, where those characters began to take on a kind of immortality and resilience that Delaney and Kyra lacked.
		And Boyle clearly wants to tug our heartstrings when he switches in alternate chapters to Cándido and América, as they struggle to find work illegally, simply because there is nothing for them back home.
	forums.thebookforum.com /showthread.php?p=90237 (1755 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - T Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle is the author of nine novels and six short story collections, all of them filled with quirky characters, lush descriptions, and cynical humor.
		Boyle's eighth novel A Friend of the Earth (2000), is set in California in 2025 and depicts a world in the advanced stages of environmental collapse.
		Boyle's 1993 novel, The Road to Wellville, was adapted as a movie.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/boyle_tc.html (405 words)

	The Inner Circle by T. Coraghessan Boyle PopMatters Book Review
		That Boyle lends the tale a singular voice of reflection gives it an earnestness and immediacy that is captivating, letting history unfurl at the edge while Milk is ensnared in an emotional trial that undermines everything he is working toward.
		Boyle is that rare breed of American literary fiction writer, an alluring wordsmith and evocative storyteller who can waltz the belles-lettres and swing with the masses.
		Readjusting his authorial eye just a bit to an earlier and more sensationally influential period of American history, Boyle's sublime tenth novel, The Inner Circle, tackles still another fragment of Americana that has fallen through the cracks of historical ignorance.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/i/inner-circle.shtml (1532 words)

	Boyle, T. C. on Encyclopedia.com
		At the Boyle-ing point; Author brews up winning mix of action, detail in tales; "T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle" (Viking).
		Boyle's settings range from the historical to the contemporary, his subject matter often edging into the quirky, strange, or bizarre.
		Boyle arrives at the New York Times-New York is Book Country Literary Brunch April 21, 2002 in New York City.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BoyleT1C1.asp (685 words)

	T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'Without a Hero' Review by David Louis Edelman
		Coraghessan Boyle is a good novel writer who's certainly proven that he can work wonders when he sets his mind to it, but his short stories are a completely hit-or-miss affair.
		Boyle's last two novels, East Is East and the truly inspired The Road to Wellville, with their sardonic treatments of crossed cultures and self-assured con men, promised some greater aim for Boyle's talents.
		Often Boyle's stories resort to the juvenile trick of the ironic twist, a tactic that's as disappointing as it is lazy.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /reviews/boyle2.cfm (428 words)

	Amazon.com: The Inner Circle: Books: T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle paints Kinsey as a kind of Machiavellian, all-knowing leader of his group of researchers and their families: "What he (Kinsey) wanted above all else was to gain the sort of intimacy that yields up confidences, and he had a true genius for it---for putting people at ease and bringing them out.
		Boyle's narrative brio accelerates as other members of the inner circle and their wives respond to Kinsey's manipulative charisma, while the professor's increasingly uninhibited and egotistical demands test the bonds of marital fidelity.
		Boyle does (apparently) a fine job of depicting the character and personality of Kinsey, albeit from the virtually uncritical perspective of his narrator, the mild-mannered fictional research assistant, John Milk.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033448?v=glance (2649 words)

	USC Department of English PhD in Literature & Creative Writing
		Coraghessan Boyle was born in Peeksill, New York and taught high school English there after graduating from the State University of New York at Potsdam.
		T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle
		C. Boyle currently makes his home near Santa Barbara, California, not far from the McCormick estate.
	www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/english/creative_writing/bio-boyle.html (148 words)

	Amazon.ca: Drop City: Books
		Boyle sublimely captures the sociology of its rebellious members, who doubt the sincerity or beliefs of newcomers, express some insecurity about nonconformity, and chastise outsiders while remaining oblivious to their own hypocrisy.
		Boyle has a wonderful eye for the comedy of imposture when the self-deceived themselves practice deception.
		I came to him slowly, skeptically, but this is the third Boyle novel I've read, after Friend of the Earth and The Inner Circle.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670031720 (800 words)

	Lannan Foundation - T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle has said of his work, “I write these novels in order to try to understand the world a little better for my own self.
		The author of seventeen books of fiction, Boyle’s themes range dramatically from Alfred Kinsey& influence on sexual and societal mores in The Inner Circle, to a down and out California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life that decides to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving interior of Alaska in Drop City.
		And if I help my fans and readers to go along on the journey, that’s great.” Boyle, who holds a Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century British Literature, has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978.
	www.lannan.org /lf/bios/detail/t-coraghessan-boyle (142 words)

	The Inner Circle - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Used Books
		The Inner Circle - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Used Books
		In Boyle's novel, a young man named John Milk is a student at Indiana University when he goes to work for Kinsey and becomes deeply involved not only in the study but in Kinsey's life.
		As he did in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T. Boyle turns to the odd fringes of American history in THE INNER CIRCLE, this time taking the notorious Alfred Kinsey as his subject.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/35052731.html (465 words)

	Discussion Questions for Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle is as much a satirist/ironist as Voltaire was.
		The title of Boyle's book alludes to a work by Charles Darwin (you can go to Darwin's work by clicking on this link).
		Why do you think Boyle models his story on these?
	www.uwrf.edu /~sl01/244/boyle97.html (756 words)

	SciFan: Books: T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle by T. Coraghessan Boyle (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		Skinny, earringed, satanically goateed, T. Coraghessan Boyle is the trickster figure of American letters.
		T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, by T.
		Boyle's comic range is unparalleled, his timing razor-sharp as he skewers everyone from burglar alarm salesmen to the Beats.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=34921 (376 words)

	Featured Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle'
		Boyle seems to want to establish an equality and fraternity with the past both for himself and for the reader.
		Boyle's weaker efforts -- which this volume, unfortunately, seems to feature -- his disparate talents are used, singly, for showy, but shallow effects.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/10/08/specials/boyle.html (503 words)

	The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
		T. Coraghessan Boyle was born in 1948 and grew up in Peekskill, New York.
		While in college, Boyle exchanged his middle name, John, for the unusual Coraghessan, the name of one of his Irish ancestors.
		The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
	www.wutheringbites.com /read/bookpage.asp?BookID=281 (1074 words)

	T.C. Boyle on Kinsey, Sex and Writing Novels - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		Getting it On Coraghessan Boyle’s 10th novel is a mediation on love, marriage and family.
		Instead of John Harvey Kellogg, Boyle this time tackles Alfred C. Kinsey, the Indiana University professor who jump-started the sexual revolution with the 1948 publication of “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.” The novel is narrated by John Milk, a naive researcher at the center of Professor Kinsey’s, or “Prok’s,” inner circle.
		T.C. Boyle recently spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Brian Braiker about “The Inner Circle,” his 10th novel, Kinsey’s legacy and what he’s working on now.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6031495/site/newsweek (2090 words)

	T. Coraghessan Boyle
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	Shtick! Book Recommendation: "Budding Prospects" - T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle's strength is always his command of language and his humor.
		To me, no other author writes true "comedy" (which is just like "tragedy" only funny, cause it's not happening to me) nearly as well as T.C. Boyle.
		If that's what you enjoy about him, then make sure that you read this book cause it's probably his lightest, wildest book that is free to make you laugh as opposed to think, though that happens sometimes too.
	shtick.org /Recommendations/book65.htm (163 words)

	Interview February 28, 1998: Author T.C. Boyle
		Listen in and learn how to say "Coraghessan" and why T. Boyle left it off the book jacket.
		Sporting his underwear (briefs) author T.C. Boyle talks with Michael about his latest novel, "Riven Rock," the story of a schizophrenic sexual maniac, his life, his wife, and his monkeys.
		T.C. Boyle's book Riven Rock is available from Amazon.com.
	www.notmuch.com /Features/Interview/int-022898.html (84 words)

	Salon.com People T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Coraghessan Boyle researched the Indian and Dutch history of his childhood town of Peekskill, N.Y. "The Tortilla Curtain" -- which chronicles the painful intersection between an impoverished Mexican couple without green cards and their suburban counterpoints who live in gated California communities -- emerged as he weighed the issue of illegal immigration.
		Naturally, after reading several tomes about our worsening environmental predicament -- and finding himself utterly depressed and horrified -- Boyle didn't go downtown in a white robe to tell passersby the end is near.
		Boyle laughs often, even while we discuss environmental degradation.
	archive.salon.com /people/conv/2000/12/11/boyle/print.html (2148 words)

	Alan Cogan - Reviews The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Alan Cogan - Reviews The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
		Boyle is particularly good on the ironies involved in the situation.
		The story switches back and forth between the two couples and, in the process, looks at the issue of illegal immigration from seemingly every point of view.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/acogan/acbktortilla.html (459 words)

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