Reading Notes T C Boyles Drop City
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Reading Notes: T.C. Boyle's Drop City
T.C. Boyle's novel Drop City is a wonderful example of a novel that fires on all cylinders. His powerful engagement with the trials and tribulations of a brimming counterculture, takes the reader on a humorous and intimate journey into the popular American literary themes of man versus nature, and the individual versus society. While these particular themes can seem to have been exhausted in American literature, Boyle use his quick wit and clever intellect to create a style and voice that resists the popular conventions of the American novel, thereby creating a truly one of a kind experience for the reader. There are many different aspects of Drop City for the reader to thoroughly enjoy, however, two particular features stood out to me while reading. T.C...