If the River Was Whiskey (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: California, upstate New York, Connecticut, Maine, Quebec, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, and a fictional Latin American country
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Nature, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Dreams, 1980’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Depression, mental, Drinking or drunkenness, Hollywood, Public relations, Fishing or fishermen, Comedy, Satire, Lakes
- Locales: California, Connecticut, New York, Mexico, Ireland, Maine, Quebec, Canada, Latin America, Nicaragua
If the River Was Whiskey, the third collection of short stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle, chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Books of 1989, demonstrates his comic vision of paranoia, violence, and sexual relations in contemporary America. As his previous collections, Descent of Man (1979) and Greasy Lake and Other Stories (1985), and his novels, Water Music (1981), Budding Prospects (1984), and World’s End (1987), have shown, Boyle is a distinctive stylist and an entertaining, subtle moralist. Unlike most of his...
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