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[23] The story "Greasy Lake", whose title and epigraph are borrowed from Bruce Springsteen, tells the story of a group of wannabe “bad” kids who come to the lake hoping to "smoke pot, howl at the stars, and savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll" but find themselves facing a vicious thug who drives the main character into ...
Greasy Lake is a 1988 American short drama film based on the short story "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle. It was directed by Damian Harris and stars Eric Stoltz and James Spader . Plot
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
Greasy Lake: Short: 1989 The Rachel Papers: Also screenwriter 1991 Deceived: 1992 Chillers: TV series (1 episode); also screenwriter 1995 Bad Company: 1996 Strangers: TV series 1998 Sins of the City: TV series (2 episodes) 2000 Mercy: Also screenwriter 2008 Gardens of the Night: Also screenwriter & producer 2012 To the Moon: Short 2017 The ...
A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U.S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish ("I'm a mess and I know it. Jewish guilt, Catholic guilt, enviro-eco-capitalistico guilt: I can't even expel gas in peace."), whose personal tragedy fits in with, and adds to, the gloomy atmosphere created in the novel.
The novel follows the parallel adventures and intertwining fates of its protagonists. Ned Rise is a luckless and purely fictional petty criminal traveling with the historically based explorer Mungo Park through various locales in Scotland and England, then on two Imperial British expeditions into Western Africa to explore the Niger River.
Outside Looking In is a novel by American author T. C. Boyle.It was published on April 9, 2019. [1] It takes place during the Harvard LSD experiments of the early 1960s. [2] A version of Timothy Leary appears as a character, depicted as a "blend of cheerfulness and manipulation."
The Inner Circle is a novel by T. C. Boyle first published in 2004 about the development of sexology in the United States and about Alfred Kinsey's rise to fame during the late 1940s and early 1950s as seen through the eyes of one of his loyal assistants.