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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
[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 & 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
James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960; / ˈ s p eɪ d ər / SPAY-dər) is an American actor.He is known for often portraying eccentric and morally ambiguous characters. He began his career in critically acclaimed independent films before transitioning into television, for which he received many awards and acclaim, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe ...
The many nuances of the full English are best appreciated by gazing into the window of any given greasy spoon, where you’ll be greeted with variations along the lines of: “Set 1: Egg, Bacon ...
Drop City is a 2003 novel by American author T. C. Boyle.The novel, set in various years from the early 1960s to late 1970s, describes the social evolution of a group of eight counter-cultural nudists in a commune based on the real Drop City, Colorado.
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]
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.