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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; 'not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past' (The Times)
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World's End is a book to treasure and savour ... In rich and sensuous prose, studded like a mace with knobs of black humour, Boyle invokes the colonial past ... Not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past (The Times)
World's End gives Boyle lots of room to display his manic gift for language, his love of exaggeration and Grand Guignol effects, his ability to work all sorts of magical variations on literature and history ... T.C. Boyle has emerged as one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation (New York Times)
World's End is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three well-researched time periods - the seventeenth century, the 1940s and the 1960s - but rapidly takes off from its launchpad and hurls itself into a garrulous world of exaggeration, manic invention and linguistic aerobatics (Observer)
The peak achievement this far in a career that seems now to have no clear limits (New York Times Book Review)
World's End is one of the most ambitious American novels of recent years ... a display of wit, narrative power and imaginative empathy for which most readers will feel, simply, gratitude (USA Today)
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World's End gives Boyle lots of room to display his manic gift for language, his love of exaggeration and Grand Guignol effects, his ability to work all sorts of magical variations on literature and history ... T.C. Boyle has emerged as one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation (New York Times)
World's End is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three well-researched time periods - the seventeenth century, the 1940s and the 1960s - but rapidly takes off from its launchpad and hurls itself into a garrulous world of exaggeration, manic invention and linguistic aerobatics (Observer)
The peak achievement this far in a career that seems now to have no clear limits (New York Times Book Review)
World's End is one of the most ambitious American novels of recent years ... a display of wit, narrative power and imaginative empathy for which most readers will feel, simply, gratitude (USA Today)
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; 'not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past' (The Times)
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1526608928
- ISBN 13 9781526608925
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages480
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