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T.C. Boyle
Author profile
born
in Peekskill, NY, The United States
December 02, 1948
gender
male
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The Tortilla Curtain
— published 1995 — 52 editions |
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Drop City
— published 2003 — 22 editions |
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The Women
— published 2008 — 5 editions |
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The Road to Wellville
— published 1993 — 16 editions |
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The Inner Circle
— published 2003 — 22 editions |
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Talk Talk
— published 2006 — 23 editions |
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World's End
— published 1987 — 13 editions |
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Water Music
by T.C. Boyle, James R. Kincaid — published 1981 — 17 editions |
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When the Killing's Done
— published 2011 — 21 editions |
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A Friend of the Earth
— published 1990 — 13 editions |
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January 2011,
T.C. Boyle
"His Favorite Books About Animals Eating People: Biologists weed out unwanted species in his new book When the Killing's Done, so Boyle turns the tables and shares his favorite stories about man-hungry carnivores." ...More
"His Favorite Books About Animals Eating People: Biologists weed out unwanted species in his new book When the Killing's Done, so Boyle turns the tables and shares his favorite stories about man-hungry carnivores." ...More
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“I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental instability, went back to school, made a go of it, entered a Ph.D. program in nineteenth-century British literature, sat in the front row, took notes assiduously, bought a pair of horn-rims, and quit on the eve of my comprehensive exams. I got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit eating red meat. I quit jobs: digging graves, pumping gas, selling insurance, showing pornographic films in an art theater in Boston. When I was nineteen I made frantic love to a pinch-faced, sack-bosomed girl I'd known from high school. She got pregnant. I quit town.”
― T.C. Boyle
― T.C. Boyle
“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.”
― T.C. Boyle
― T.C. Boyle
“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self?”
― T.C. Boyle
― T.C. Boyle
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| Glens Falls (NY) ...: New York Times Books Update - 1/30/09 | 3 | 32 | Mar 02, 2009 08:05pm | |
| Every one's Choice: November - Oliver Twist | 46 | 41 | Nov 23, 2009 06:24am | |
| Glens Falls (NY) ...: What are U reading these days? (Part Five) (begun 3/12/09) | 1049 | 450 | Dec 31, 2009 10:39pm | |
| Glens Falls (NY) ...: 2009 - BOOK DISCUSSIONS AT THE CRANDALL LIBRARY IN GLENS FALLS, NY (2009) (two different groups) | 3 | 48 | Jan 03, 2010 09:28am | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Best Reads of 2009 | 49 | 55 | Jan 05, 2010 07:20am | |
| Goodreads Author ...: Questions for T.C. Boyle | 1 | 22 | Jan 13, 2010 04:45pm | |
| Questions for T.C. Boyle | 2 | 45 | Jan 13, 2010 07:24pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: 20.4 (Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride - Heidi - Our Histories) | 127 | 218 | May 08, 2010 06:14am |
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