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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.
Jason Heller for NPR applauded the novel as a success and commended the author's attention to detail, writing, "Boyle navigates his well-worn territory with sensitivity and finesse". [4] 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 ...
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]
Budding Prospects by T. C. Boyle Hardcover - ISBN 0-670-19439-5 (first edition) published by Viking Press Paperback - ISBN 0-14-029996-3 published by Penguin Books
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."
Water Music is the first novel by T. C. Boyle, published in 1981. It is a semifictional historical fiction adventure set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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.
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.