At 70 years old, Thomas Coraghessan Boyle - many of his supporters insist that Coraghessan, the
middlename
he had chosen as his pseudonym, should not be forgotten, nor reduced to a C. - is still America's most rock novelist. North.
His Mephistophelic goatee, his earring are still there to tell us that the character he invented almost half a century ago will forever remain the iconoclast magnifying under his sardonic magnifying glass the failings of America. and the modern Americanized world, past, present and future.
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An abundant novelist, he is also a very great short story writer.
The characters in
Histoires de couples
, as often with him, are puppets without great depth that he confronts with unexpected situations, and whose reactions he observes.
He is like a scientist who would have fun setting up crazy experiments to see how the human animal does.
As in his novels, he evokes subjects that are close to his heart - or
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