T. Coraghessan Boyle (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

T. Coraghessan Boyle published several collections of mostly satirical short stories that generally address the same themes seen in his longer fiction.

Achievements

Boyle’s novels have been praised for their originality, style, and comic energy. At a time when his contemporaries seem obsessed with the mundane details of everyday life—presented in a minimalist style—Boyle approaches fiction as an iconoclastic storyteller who embraces and borrows from the entire history of narrative literature, celebrating the profane, often- absurd...

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