Drop City (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1970
- Setting: Drop City Ranch, Sonoma, California, and the outskirts of Boynton, Alaska
- Principal Characters: Norm Sender, Star, Pan, Cecil “Sess” Harder, Pamela McCoon, Joe Bosky, Marco Connell
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Exile or expatriates, Marriage, California, Farms, farmers, or farming, Drugs, Drinking or drunkenness, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Alaska, Counterculture, Hippies, Vegetarianism
- Locales: California, Alaska
In the fiction of T. Coraghessan Boyle, all the world’s a Darwinian proving ground and the people merely competitors. Boyle’s novels and short stories repeatedly visit the idea that civilization is still driven by the primitive struggle of the survival of the fittest and that people who think otherwise are likely to become victims of their own naïveté, if not the self-interest of others. The settings of Boyle’s stories are among the most diverse and unusual in modern fiction: a marijuana farm in Northern California, a turn-of-the-century health spa sponsored by cereal magnate...
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