
A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
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T. C. Boyle
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By:
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T. C. Boyle
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form.
By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes. They find Boyle engagingly testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance, whether it's a group of giants being bred as weapons of war in a fictional Latin American country, a Russian woman who ignores dire warnings in returning to her radiation-contaminated home, a hermetic writer who gets more than a break in his routine when he travels to receive a minor award, or a man in a California mountain town who goes a little too far in his concern for a widow.
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Nobody does it better.
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not my favorite
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Left me wanting more
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Well-written Collection
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I skipped 2 of them because they didn't hold my interest.
However... I love T.C. Boyle and I think he is a wonderful author and when he narrates some of his books, they truly come alive.
Story books are not for me
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He’s the baddest!
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Entertaining
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Excellent author and narrator!
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Overall, these stories failed to win me over because most of them are unresolved. Boyle does a great job bringing characters to life, and even though some of these stories are a bit dated, the ways modern Baby Boomers think and the issues they contend with as they gradually then oh-so-rapidly age are very relatable. I detect a style Boyle embraces with his characters—he gives you insight into their thoughts and the characters are frequently second-guessing themselves, reconsidering their first reactions, deciding that first impressions were false, always on edge with their decision making—kind of like real humans. That type of inner monologue reveals our insecurities and it does seem nearly every one of his characters in these short stories and the characters in The Torilla Cutain also suffer from abject insecurities 24/7. The style works for Boyle’s and his own actual voice reading his works in adding authenticity to that type of nervous being. (Boyle’s voice is so reminiscent of an actor or other reader’s voice, that it makes me crazy. I can almost see the other person, yet, I can’t. The vocal twin remains illusory for now).
When it comes to this short story collection, I was left disappointed again and again, story after story, in the lack of resolution to a character’s dilemma, storyline, plot twists which after Boyle does a great job hooking the reader, setting up the situation, presenting the narrative, boom, the story ends with so many loose ends and ultimately the reader is left dangling on each and every one of them. It’s like Boyle himself says, “listen guys, let me tell you about this guy I know and this stuff that happened to him....”. Then, then he gets up and goes home, And you go, “well, what happen?” And Boyle says, “hey you figure it out.” It feels like a deal has been broken between author and reader.
The other aspect of these stories is the impression I got that so many of them were sketches for novels that he just didn’t know how to resolve into a full blown book. So many of these people, I wanted to know more about.
Mixed Bag
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