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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 rewrites the classic Nikolai Gogol story, but transports his characters into the Cold War era. The main character, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, a "hard-nosed revolutionary communist worker," hopes to purchase a new "Good Quality Soviet Made Winter Coat."
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.
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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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]
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."
There have been entire shelves of non-fiction books written about climate change. Set in a not-too-distant future, “Blue Skies" is a work of fiction that begins with the premise: How will humans ...