Praise for T. C. Boyle

“Over the course of his career, Boyle has been compared to everybody but Sappho, and there’s probably no escaping name-dropping when discussing his fiction, since he’s always trying on voices and forms, rummaging through the toy box and pulling out, for his own purposes, other people’s shticks. He has S. J. Perelman’s affection for the absurdities of pop culture as starting point . . . . He has Robert Coover’s wicked sense of the flimsiness of our received cultural representations of goodness and virtue . . . . He has Donald Barthelme’s gift for deadpan comic premises and for Osterizing high and low culture.”

—Jim Shepard, New York Times Book Review

“Boyle is the closest thing we have to a modern-day Washington Irving, that American storyteller par excellence who found a perfect balance between art and pop, and who lived and worked not far from Boyle’s own boyhood home along the Hudson River.”

—Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times

“At his vaulting, imaginative best Boyle suggests the bastard child of Flannery O’Connor and Monty Python.”

—Miami Herald

“Boyle’s close alternate worlds are reminiscent at times of George Saunders’s stories, but unlike the lefty Saunders, whose protagonists head-butt true ethical dilemmas and take on corporations and capitalism in the name of love and truth, Boyle frames individuals themselves as the problem.”

—Deb Olin Unferth, New York Times Book Review

“Boyle’s wit and sharp ability to pack entire worlds into only a few pages is evident throughout.”

—Bustle