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The
2005 Award
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Drop City by T.C. Boyle
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free
love and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier-the
unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska-in the ultimate expression of going
back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder,
his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in
the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of 'Drop City', led by Norm
Sender and three idealistic émigrés from the east coast, Star,
her boyfriend, Marco, and Ronnie. As these two communities collide, their
alliances shift and unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born
as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment,
and a roof over one's head. Drop City is a surprising story, one that reveals human behaviour at its rawest, most tender and most compelling. It is also a rich, allusive, and unsentimental look at the ideals of a generation and their impact on today's radically transformed world. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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C. Boyle is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including World's
End, winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award, The Road to Welville,
After the Plague and The Inner Circle and six
collections of stories. He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century
British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. He has been a member
of the English Department at the University of Southern California since
1978. His books are available in a number of foreign and his stories appear
regularly in major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's,
Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, and Playboy. He currently lives
near Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three children. T.C. Boyle's website is www.tcboyle.com |
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