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C. Boyleis a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the mid s, he has published twelve novels and more than short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in , for his third novel, World's End, which recounts years in upstate New York.

Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions.

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. His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment.

His novels include World's End (, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (); and The Tortilla Curtain (, winner of France's Prix Médicis étranger).

Boyle has published eight collections of short stories, including Descent of Man (), Greas