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The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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Author Biography

Name: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Birth Date: December 2, 1948
Place of Birth: Peekskill, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of T(homas) Coraghessan Boyle
5406 words, approx. 18 pages
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 fiction is widely praised for its black comedy, incon...
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Biography of T(homas) Coraghessan Boyle
5198 words, approx. 17.3 pages
Since 1979 T. Coraghessan Boyle has wondered, sometimes with a strong hint of the irony that pervades most of his fiction, why he has not become as popular a writer as John Irving, John Updike, or even Stephen King. Critics and readers have praised his s...
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Biography of T. Coraghessan Boyle
4234 words, approx. 14.1 pages
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 story collections. Boyle finds humor and pathos in sub...


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The Tortilla Curtain Information
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The Tortilla Curtain (1995) is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. Of the eleven novels Boyle has written so far, The Tortilla Curtain has turned out to be...


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The Tortilla Curtain.
12/01/1996: 3,797 words, approx. 13 pages
The literary critic Lionel Trilling once suggested that novels "deliver the news," that they tell us "about the look and feel of things, how things are done and what things are worth and what they cost and what the odds are." Novels, said...
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The Tortilla Curtain. (book reviews)
06/22/1996: 515 words, approx. 2 pages
T. Coraghessan Boyle's most recent novel, The Tortilla Curtain, takes its epigraph from The Grapes of Wrath: "They ain't human. A human being wouldn't live like they do. A human being couldn't stand it to be so dirty and miserable." In so doing,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Scott Spencer
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In the following review, Spencer faults Boyle's presentation of the two story lines in The Tortilla Curtain as uneven.
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Critical Review by Francine Fialkoff
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The Tortilla Curtain: a Look at Immigration Policy
985 words, approx. 3 pages
An essay involving a proposed policy of immigration into the US, specifically from Mexico, relating to the book "The Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle.


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