Greasy Lake: and Other stories
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khruschev.Tags
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Another great collection of Boyle's stories. His second collection. There is so much detail in each page, three pages feels like enough words for ten pages. Each sentence is so perfectly crafted to reveal just enough information to create a short story. I just love savoring each story, even each sentence. I also had to read Gogol's 'Overcoat' before reading Boyle's 'Overcoat II'. Possibly these stories packed slightly less of a punch than the 'Descent of Man' collection I also read this year (more favorites in that one than in this), but that is some tough competition. I loved most of these stories (especially the Sherlock parody): Rupert Beersley & the Beggar Master of Sivani-Hoota, On For the Long Haul, The New Moon Party, Not A Leg show more to Stand On, Greasy Lake, Caviar, Whales Weep, All Shook Up, Stones In My Passway Hellhound on My Trail, A Bird In Hand, The Overcoat II. (Yes, that is most of them,) If I could only read Boyle's writing, and no other writer's, I would be completely happy with that. show less
15 stories about people in various stages of life, with various issues and problems. The stories are interesting and what I liked about them is the endings are often not what I was expecting.
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T. C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle in Peekskill, New York on December 2, 1948. He received a B.A. in English and history from SUNY Potsdam in 1968, a MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and a Ph.D. degree in nineteenth century British literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. He has been a member of the English show more department at the University of Southern California since 1978. He has written over 20 books including After the Plague, Drop City, The Inner Circle, Tooth and Claw, The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women, Wild Child, and When the Killing's Done. He has received numerous awards including the PEN/Faulkner Award for best novel of the year for World's End; the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story for T. C. Boyle Stories; and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France for The Tortilla Curtain. His title's Sam Miguel and The Harder They Caome made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) T. Coraghessan Boyle is the best-selling author of "T.C. Boyle Stories," "Riven Rock," "The Tortilla Curtain," "Without a Hero," "The Road to Wellville," "East Is East," "If the River Was Whiskey," "World's End" (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award), "Greasy Lake," "Budding Prospects," "Water Music," & "Descent of Man" (all available from Penguin). His fiction regularly appears in major American magazines, including "The New Yorker," "GQ," "The Paris Review," "Playboy," & "Esquire." He lives in Santa Barbara, California. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- Greasy Lake: and Other stories
- Original title
- Greasy Lake & Other Stories
- Original publication date
- 1979
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- 340
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- 93,085
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- (3.82)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 8
