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T.C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle, the son of Thomas John Boyle, a school bus driver, and his wife Rosemary Post Boyle (later Rosemary Murphy), a school secretary. [4] He grew up in Peekskill, New York and changed his middle name to Coraghessan when he was 17 after an ancestor of his mother.
Talk Talk is a 2006 novel by T. C. Boyle.It concerns a young deaf woman who becomes the victim of a credit card fraud and identity theft.When the police are unwilling to help, the woman and her boyfriend attempt to track down the criminal themselves.
The Women is a 2009 novel by T. C. Boyle.It is a fictional account of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's life, told through his relationships with four women: the young Montenegrin dancer Olgivanna; Miriam, the "morphine-addicted and obsessive Southern belle"; Mamah, whose life ended in a massacre at Taliesin, the home Wright built for his lovers and wives; and his first wife, Kitty, the ...
The narrator of the fictional short story was promoted to "special aid" during the time of a "visit by the Soviet Premier and his uh wife," and makes this a plausible tale, as he supposedly confesses the true account of the love story. [13] T. C. Boyle's allusions to the Cold War era are numerous.
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. [2]
It’s a typical day at the Texas Butterfly Sanctuary—until conservative politician Mindy Gallagher storms in, convinced that the sanctuary is trafficking children. In this timely fiction about ...
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Riven Rock, published in 1998, is a novel by the American author T. Coraghessan Boyle. It concerns the life of Stanley McCormick, a son of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaper, and Stanley's devoted wife, Katherine McCormick, daughter of Wirt Dexter, a prominent Chicago lawyer. The novel is a work of fiction based on actual people. [1]