The Tortilla Curtain
T. C. Boyle
The Tortilla Curtain
T. C. Boyle
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This novel examines America's guerrilla war between the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities ... rock'n'roll, full of exciting, vivid American landscapes, utopian, manic
This novel examines America's guerrilla war between the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities ... rock'n'roll, full of exciting, vivid American landscapes, utopian, manic
If Dickens were alive today he would be writing this sort of book
A harrowing, even horrific, tale of an immigrant couple's venture into California, and the shockingly brutal reception they receive ... a remarkable feat of imaginative empathy
Thrilling ... it's the same set up as Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities but Boyle immediately enlivens it
Stirring ... The Tortilla Curtain confirms Boyle's reputation as a novelist of exuberance and invention ... It also adds to his fictional range an open-hearted compassion for those whom society fears and reviles
A bold, strange novel ... a hectic satire on LA liberalism and real estate - Tom Wolfe meets Steinbeck
Irresistible ... Boyle is a gifted and empathic satirist, the finest craftsman masked as a pop-literary author current American fiction has
Lays on the line of our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots
A powerful novel ... One of the best books I've read this year
What makes Boyle's book so good is not only its juggernaut plot, but also the author's keen eye for satire ... He has achieved that rarest of literary doubles - creating a message novel that is also a thundering good read
There isn't a contemporary American writer who can top Boyle's vivid prose and ironic style
Relentless ... Boyle is a great stylist, capable of wild and imaginative feats of language and diversion, using irony and humour in a way that suggests nothing is capable of surviving his coruscating wit
A 1990s West Coast counterpart to The Bonfire of the Vanities, and certainly as inclusive in its treatment of the problems of Los Angeles as Tom Wolfe was of New York
Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel ... A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in
T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California. tcboyle.com
This novel examines America's guerrilla war between the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities ... rock'n'roll, full of exciting, vivid American landscapes, utopian, manic
If Dickens were alive today he would be writing this sort of book
A harrowing, even horrific, tale of an immigrant couple's venture into California, and the shockingly brutal reception they receive ... a remarkable feat of imaginative empathy
Thrilling ... it's the same set up as Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities but Boyle immediately enlivens it
Stirring ... The Tortilla Curtain confirms Boyle's reputation as a novelist of exuberance and invention ... It also adds to his fictional range an open-hearted compassion for those whom society fears and reviles
A bold, strange novel ... a hectic satire on LA liberalism and real estate - Tom Wolfe meets Steinbeck
Irresistible ... Boyle is a gifted and empathic satirist, the finest craftsman masked as a pop-literary author current American fiction has
Lays on the line of our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots
A powerful novel ... One of the best books I've read this year
What makes Boyle's book so good is not only its juggernaut plot, but also the author's keen eye for satire ... He has achieved that rarest of literary doubles - creating a message novel that is also a thundering good read
There isn't a contemporary American writer who can top Boyle's vivid prose and ironic style
Relentless ... Boyle is a great stylist, capable of wild and imaginative feats of language and diversion, using irony and humour in a way that suggests nothing is capable of surviving his coruscating wit
A 1990s West Coast counterpart to The Bonfire of the Vanities, and certainly as inclusive in its treatment of the problems of Los Angeles as Tom Wolfe was of New York
Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel ... A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in
T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California. tcboyle.com