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Moderne Liebe
117 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1996
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
156 books3,007 followersT. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.
He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.
He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.
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September 6, 2015
Neither strangeness nor coolness nor violence is a literary value. When reading T. C. Boyle I often imagine, that Boyle fans probably disagree. They might appreciate a specific combination of those three traits as highly literary.
Maybe my own lack of appreciation has its root in my inexperience. Which means: The type of personalities that populate Boyle's stories have not appeared in my own life yet. And I'm not a realist, I can well relate to exaggeration, satire, focusing, blurring, "tall-storyfication", magnification and whatever effects or techniques a writer wants to use. However, I want literature to say something, and not just to look cool.
Maybe my own lack of appreciation has its root in my inexperience. Which means: The type of personalities that populate Boyle's stories have not appeared in my own life yet. And I'm not a realist, I can well relate to exaggeration, satire, focusing, blurring, "tall-storyfication", magnification and whatever effects or techniques a writer wants to use. However, I want literature to say something, and not just to look cool.
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