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The Tortilla Curtain is a 1995 novel by American author T.C. Boyle. [1] It is about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia , poverty, and environmental destruction. In 1997, it was awarded the French Prix Médicis Étranger prize for best foreign novel.
T.C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle, ... San Miguel (2012) The Harder They Come (2015) The Terranauts (2016) Outside Looking In (2019) Talk to Me (2021) Blue Skies ...
San Miguel The Harder They Come is a novel by T. C. Boyle published in March 2015. It is loosely based on events in the life of Aaron Bassler, who, like Adam Stensen in the novel, was the subject of a manhunt in Mendocino County, California for 36 days in 2011.
In T.C. Boyle's new climate-focused novel, 'Blue Skies,' insects are haute cuisine, floods drive the plot, and people (and readers?) are largely indifferent.
Michael Berry of the San Francisco Chronicle similarly wrote, "What works best in the book is the detail with which Boyle portrays the nitty-gritty of life inside an enclosed environment". [5] M. John Harrison for The Guardian praised the novel for having a unique and resonant brand of humor and wrote, "Boyle's dissections are far too accurate ...
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The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy drama film written, produced and directed by Alan Parker, an adaptation of T. C. Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century.
When the Killing's Done is a 2011 novel by T. C. Boyle.The book is an environmental and family drama revolving around the Channel Islands of California—specifically Anacapa and Santa Cruz—and the controversy surrounding efforts by the National Park Service and its partners to eradicate invasive species and revitalize the islands' natural communities.