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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.
T.C. Boyle’s reference to war is as vivid as the lake, “so stripped of vegetation it looked as if the Air Force had strafed it.” [8] The mention of General Westmoreland's tactical errors in Khe Sahn equates to the main character's disastrous misguided offense of losing his car keys.
Budding Prospects: A Pastoral is a 1984 novel by T. C. Boyle. ... The opening two epigraphs quote Benjamin Franklin and the Death of a Salesman. A water pipeline ...
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. [1] [2]
After the Plague is a 2001 collection of short stories by T. C. Boyle. [1] The book was released on September 10, 2001 through Viking Adult and contains sixteen stories, some of which were previously published in The New Yorker, O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories.
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.
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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.