T. Coraghessan Boyle (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

T. Coraghessan Boyle’s novels, which explore many of the same subjects and themes as his short fiction, have received popular attention and critical praise. The Road to Wellville (1993) was made into a motion picture in 1994.

Achievements

T. Coraghessan Boyle received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1977. Descent of Man, his first collection of stories, won the St. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction. His novel Water Music (1981) received the Aga Khan Award, and another novel, World’s End (1987),...

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