T. Coraghessan Boyle's Books
Sep.18.2012
On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle’s haunting new novel.
Thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters arrives on San Miguel on New...
Feb.28.2012
T.C. Boyle's most powerful and fully realized work yet-"terrifically exciting and unapologetically relevant" (The Washington Post).
Principally set on the wild Channel Islands off the coast of California, T.C. Boyle's new novel is a gripping adventure with a timely theme. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist spearheading the efforts to save the islands'...
Jan.01.2010
Wild Child is my ninth collection of short stories, published by Viking in January of 2010. It contains fourteen new stories, including the novella-length title piece. The stories are:
"Balto" "La Conchita" "Question 62" "Sin Dolor" "Bulletproof" "Hands On" "The Lie" "The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado" "Admiral" "Ash Monday" "Thirteen Hundred Rats" "Anacapa" "Three...
Dec.29.2009
From "America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek), a novel of Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life.
Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright...
Jun.26.2007
In his eighteenth book of fiction, T. C. Boyle wildly impresses some critics (as he often does) but leaves a few critics wanting more. The slick, page-turning plot becomes “sadly undermined by a forced, slap-dash ending that feels as if it had been grafted on at the last minute” (The New York Times). That aside, Boyle’s first entry in the suspense genre is a welcome addition that...
Sep.08.2005
His many, varied novels are part of the American literary landscape—but one of the best ways to appreciate T. C. Boyle is through his richly imagined short fiction. Boyle’s kaleidoscopic humor and wit, his keen, unforgiving take on American life, and his all-too-human protagonists all combine to make his a singular voice. Here is a collection of classic Boyle stories about...
Sep.08.2005
Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young man wins a vicious African cat in a bar bet; “Dogology,” about a suburban woman losing...
Aug.30.2005
Fresh on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Book Award- nominated novel, Drop City, T.C. Boyle has spun an even more dazzling tale that will delight his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. Boyle’s tenth novel, The Inner Circle has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of...
Sep.01.2003
Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories gives students the opportunity to enjoy, through close reading and analysis, the works of some of the most recognized names in contemporary literature.
Jan.27.2003
Boyle has a wonderful eye for the comedy of imposture when the self-deceived themselves practice deception. His ninth novel, which centers on the travails of a hippie commune, Drop City, in the early 1970s, gives him plenty of poseurs to work with. Drop City, in Sonoma County, California, is run, in a manner of speaking, by a gold-toothed purveyor of Aquarian notions, Norm Sender....
Dec.31.2002
Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The...
Aug.28.2001
As the book opens, in 2025, our hero, Tyrone O’Shaughnessy Tierwater, baby boomer, ex-radical environmentalist, ex-con, ex-father, widower and divorce, is seventy-five and battling to stay afloat in the rising Social-Security-less waters of a meteorologically challenged society. He is working as an animal keeper for a wealthy but faded rock star who maintains a menagerie of some of...
Nov.01.1999
Few authors in America write with the sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle. His talent and range are manifest in this selection of 68 tales that span his every theme, mood, and nuance, clothed in his hallmark virtuoso prose.
Mythical and realistic, farcical and tragic, these stories (written between 1972 and 1997) are grouped under the headings of “Love...
Jan.01.1999
T. C. Boyle’s seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated...
Sep.01.1996
Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of them, Candido and America Rincon, have come to Southern California and are living in a makeshift camp deep in a ravine, fighting off starvation. At the top of Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher...
About T. Coraghessan
T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of nineteen books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), and Talk Talk (2006). Born Thomas John Boyle in Peekskill, New York, he grew...