The urban adventurers

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

A scarce American cultural treasure.

260 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1972

About the author

T. 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.

Reviews

[Sean Gaines · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of Poems, short stories, excerpts from novels, newspaper articles, articles from magazines like Rolling Stone, provides a full spectrum look and first-hand account of the 70s. Written by a Columbia professor who collaborated with a generational poetry luminary, the reader takes a walk through sex, drugs, rock and roll, the city, college, students, the war and everything that made up the time. Mick Jagger, Tom Wolf, William Burroughs Gregory Corso, and a myriad of the best writers singers and Poets of the time makeup this collection.

If you can find it I highly recommend you take it and read it and you keep it.