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T. Coraghessan Boyle

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American novelist and short story writer (born 1948)

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Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published thirty one novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.

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In their own words 3

T. Coraghessan Boyle
said · 1989
Own words

If you're not working, you might as well be dead.

Acts of God (1989)

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T. Coraghessan Boyle
said · 1989
Own words

His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.

Acts of God (1989)

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T. Coraghessan Boyle
said · 1989
Own words

The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.

Acts of God (1989)

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Awards 6

2017Jonathan Swift Award
1999PEN/Malamud Award
1997Prix Médicis étranger
1988PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Guggenheim Fellowship
Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors

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Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 77
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18 languages

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