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The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle | |
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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... summary from source:
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... summary from source:
 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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Tortilla Curtain Information
1,090 words, approx. 4 pages
 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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 Reason The Tortilla Curtain.
12/01/1996: 3,795 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 Trilling,... summary from source:
World Literature Today The Tortilla Curtain. (book reviews)
06/22/1996: 513 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, Boyle...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Scott Spencer
1,345 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Spencer faults Boyle's presentation of the two story lines in The Tortilla Curtain as uneven.
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