Over 10,000 people were evacuated from Montecito as a result of the sequence of natural disasters. The fires denuded drought-stricken hillsides of vegetation and torrential rains in January 2018 subsequently dislodged immense boulders and precipitated mudslides which destroyed over one hundred homes and killed almost two dozen of his neighbors. Their home was imperiled in the 2017 Thomas Fire which consumed 440 square miles and over 1,000 structures in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, killing a firefighter in the latter. They have three children and live in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California. Personal life īoyle is married to Karen Kvashay. His short stories frequently appear in the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy, as well as on the radio show Selected Shorts. īoyle has published eight collections of short stories, including Descent of Man (1979), Greasy Lake (1985), If the River Was Whiskey (1989), and Without a Hero (1994). His novels include World's End (1987, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction) The Road to Wellville (1993) and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of France's Prix Médicis étranger). His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magical realism. Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions. Boyle, Paul William Gleason writes, "Boyle's stories and novels take the best elements of Carver's minimalism, Barth's postmodern extravaganzas, Garcia Marquez's magical realism, O'Connor's dark comedy and moral seriousness, and Dickens' entertaining and strange plots and brings them to bear on American life in an accessible, subversive, and inventive way." (1974) from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. in English and History from the State University of New York at Potsdam (1968), an M.F.A. His name was originally Thomas John Boyle he changed his middle name to Coraghessan when he was 17 after an ancestor of his mother.
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