T Coraghessan Boyle
T. C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published fifteen novels and more than one hundred short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End , and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995. His last novel, The Harder They Come , was a New York Times bestseller and won the inaugural Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award in 2016. In 2014 he won the Rea Award for the Short Story,...See more
T. C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published fifteen novels and more than one hundred short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End , and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995. His last novel, The Harder They Come , was a New York Times bestseller and won the inaugural Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award in 2016. In 2014 he won the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times . He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara. See less
T Coraghessan Boyle's Featured Books
T Coraghessan Boyle book reviews
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The Tortilla Curtain
Immigration Controversy Decoder Ring
T.C. Boyle wrote it in 1995, but the Presidential race of 2016 renders this book mandatory reading for folks on all sides of the immigration debate. Representing the points of view of liberal, ... Read More
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Talk Talk
Tightly paced novel about identity theft
by newleaf, May 21, 2009
Identity theft is a modern nightmare, and this novel details, from both sides of the fence?thief and victim?just how pervasive and ineradicable the problem is. Read More
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Exp the Women
The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright
In The Women, T.C. Boyle once again takes on a key figure of American culture, and paints a picture of their life from the point of view of the people around them. Frank Lloyd Wright proved to be an ... Read More
