World's End

t. coraghessan boyle

This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth century to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordly Dutch patrons, and yeomen.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionliteraturenovelsliterary fictioncontemporaryhistoricalamericanthe united states of americabook club

480 pages, Paperback

First published October 8,1987

Literary awards

pen/faulkner award for fiction, california book award,

This edition

Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Published: July 20, 1990 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140299939
ASIN: 0140299939
Language: English

About the author

t. coraghessan boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.

He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.