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T. C. Boyle

Autor(a) de The Tortilla Curtain

97+ Works 25,502 Membros 595 Críticas 136 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais Iowa in 1977. He has been a member of the English 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) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por T. C. Boyle

The Tortilla Curtain (1995) 3,650 exemplares
Drop City (2003) 2,403 exemplares
The Road to Wellville (1993) 1,649 exemplares
The Women (2008) 1,573 exemplares
World's End (1988) 1,355 exemplares
The Inner Circle (2004) 1,346 exemplares
Talk Talk (2006) 1,300 exemplares
Water Music (1981) 1,171 exemplares
Riven Rock (1998) 1,012 exemplares
A Friend of the Earth (2000) 957 exemplares
East is East (1990) 836 exemplares
T.C. Boyle Stories (1979) 737 exemplares
When the Killing's Done (2011) 722 exemplares
Budding Prospects (1984) 671 exemplares
The Harder They Come (2015) 579 exemplares
San Miguel (2012) 522 exemplares
Tooth and Claw: and Other Stories (2005) 510 exemplares
The Terranauts (2016) — Autor — 503 exemplares
If the River Was Whiskey (1989) 503 exemplares
Without a Hero (1994) 409 exemplares
Wild Child: and Other Stories (2010) 381 exemplares
Greasy Lake: and Other stories (1979) 314 exemplares
Outside Looking In (2019) 216 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015) — Editor — 215 exemplares
The Human Fly: and Other stories (2005) 197 exemplares
T C Boyle Stories II (2013) 117 exemplares
Talk to Me (2021) 111 exemplares
The Relive Box and Other Stories (2017) 107 exemplares
Blue Skies (2023) — Autor — 84 exemplares
Wild Child {story} (2010) 65 exemplares
She Wasn't Soft (1996) 49 exemplares
Doubletakes (2003) 47 exemplares
Death in Kitchawank (2014) 30 exemplares
Good Home: Stories (2018) 16 exemplares
Vingt cinq histoires de mort (2000) 11 exemplares
Praat met mij (2021) 10 exemplares
Der Admiral (2012) 9 exemplares
Guten Flug: Zwei Erzählungen (2009) 8 exemplares
Tooth and Claw 7 exemplares
Dreizehnhundert Ratten (2011) 5 exemplares
Sind wir nicht Menschen (2020) 5 exemplares
Frage 62 (2012) 4 exemplares
Der Polarforscher (1998) 4 exemplares
Sprich mit mir (2021) 4 exemplares
Moderne Liebe: Erzählungen (1997) 4 exemplares
[Title missing] 3 exemplares
In der Zone (2012) 3 exemplares
Histoires de couples: Nouvelles (2021) 2 exemplares
Balto (2014) 2 exemplares
The lie (2013) 2 exemplares
Are we not men? 1 exemplar
Chicxulub 1 exemplar
Mein Abend mit Jane Austen (1997) 1 exemplar
Drop City - A Novel (2003) 1 exemplar
T. C. Boyle Stories (Part 1) (1994) 1 exemplar
Anacapa (2013) 1 exemplar
The Lie: Family Snapshots (2013) 1 exemplar
Bulletproof (2013) 1 exemplar
“The Hit Man” 1 exemplar
La Conchita 1 exemplar
Histoires cruelles (2012) 1 exemplar
T C Boyle Pack (2004) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições902 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 815 exemplares
The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contribuidor — 621 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 560 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004) — Contribuidor — 548 exemplares
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contribuidor — 404 exemplares
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contribuidor — 360 exemplares
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Contribuidor — 359 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997) — Contribuidor — 346 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 262 exemplares
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (2015) — Contribuidor — 258 exemplares
Press Start to Play (2015) — Contribuidor — 247 exemplares
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contribuidor — 205 exemplares
The Secret History of Fantasy (2010) — Contribuidor — 196 exemplares
The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009) — Contribuidor — 195 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 171 exemplares
Granta 85: Hidden Histories (2004) — Contribuidor — 169 exemplares
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuidor — 157 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2020 (2020) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
Granta 23: Home (1988) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
Granta 63: Beasts (1998) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President (1991) — Contribuidor — 126 exemplares
Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth (1993) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards (2001) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 34 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (2018) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet (2011) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Baseball's Best Short Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Year's Finest Fantasy (1977) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 43 (2013) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (2015) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind (1982) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Granta 9: John Berger, Boris (1983) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Killing Spirit : An Anthology of Murder for Hire (1996) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Road to Wellville [1994 film] (1993) — Original book — 33 exemplares
Ghost Writing: Haunted Tales by Contemporary Writers (2000) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (2000) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka (2011) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Exotic Gothic: Forbidden Tales from Our Gothic World (2007) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Ten: A Bloomsbury Tenth Anniversary Anthology (1996) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (1982) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Black Clock 21 (2016) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Fiction International 12: Moral Fiction: An Anthology (1980) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Antaeus No. 70, Spring 1993 - Special Fiction Issue (1993) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Playboy Magazine ~ November 1990 (Teri Copley) (1990) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Schöne Ferien — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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engaging story about the rich and the poor
 
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betty_s | 99 outras críticas | Nov 27, 2023 |
Loved it, couldn't get enough, then lost steam. It happens a lot with me and TC Boyle.
 
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nogomu | 38 outras críticas | Oct 19, 2023 |
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
97
Also by
72
Membros
25,502
Popularidade
#820
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
595
ISBN
754
Línguas
15
Marcado como favorito
136
Pedras de toque
689

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