T. Coraghessan Boyle Summary

Known for his blend of black humor and slightly off-kilter characters, T. Coraghessan Boyle has garnered a reputation for inserting verbal pyrotechnics and a bizarre mix of subjects in his novels and ... Read more

Much of the appeal of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novels and stories is in his creation of outrageous characters, bizarre situations, and deliberately inflated comparisons. Hip, erudite, and audacious, his... Read more

Towers is an American educator, novelist, and critic. In the following excerpt, he observes that, although Boyle's satire is "more farcical than witty," East Is East is a funny bo... Read more

In the excerpt below, Bull comments on Boyle's The Collected Stories, nothing the opposition between body and reason and the prominence of such motifs as water and alcohol. If Haile Selassie... Read more

Below, the critic presents a favorable review of Without a Hero, and Other Stories. Most effective of the 16 technically ingenious and rudely funny, satirical stories in Boyle's fourth colle... Read more

In the following review of If the River Was Whiskey, Kakutani contends that Boyle, now depicting yuppies rather than hippies, has here used his "disparate talents" to produce "sho... Read more

An American critic and journalist, Eder received the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. In the following review, he contends that the stories in If the River Was Whiskey are flawed by Boyle'... Read more

In the following excerpt from an essay based on an interview with Boyle, Stanton discusses Boyle's education and provides an overview of his career up to the publication of East Is East. &#x... Read more

In the following review, Conant disparages East Is East's plotting, characterization, and prose as superficial. A young sailor in the Japanese Merchant Marine, Hiro Tanaka, jumps ship off th... Read more