This is the first critical companion to the works of this darkly
comic short story writer and novelist. ""Understanding T. C.
Boyle"" is the first book-length study of one of contemporary
America's most prolific, popular, and critically acclaimed fiction
writers. The author of seven short story collections and eleven
novels, T. C. Boyle has been honored with the 1988 PEN/Faulkner
Award for ""World's End"", the 1997 Prix Medicis Etranger for ""The
Tortilla Curtain"", the 1999 PEN/Malamud Award for ""T. C. Boyle:
Stories"", and a 2003 National Book Award nomination for ""Drop
City"". Boyle's 1993 novel, ""The Road to Wellville"", was adapted
into a feature film. Paul Gleason begins his investigation of
Boyle's work by exploring the biographical, historical, and
literary contexts at play in the writer's fiction. Gleason maps the
literary influences that shaped Boyle's 'wise guy' style, among
them Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and
Samuel Beckett. The volume then features chapters on Boyle's short
fiction and his novels of the past three decades. Gleason
demonstrates Boyle's literary development as entertainer,
absurdist, social commentator and critic, and historical novelist
who chronicles the baby boomer generation while addressing a range
of contemporary social issues, such as race relations, illegal
immigration, and feminism. Gleason shows how Boyle uses dark humor
as a moral and satiric force for social commentary in the tradition
of writers such as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. Though the
entertainment value of Boyle's writing has much to do with his
popularity, Gleason also sees him as an iconoclast who questions
his generation's ideals, philosophies, and actions.
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