Awards
Winner of the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction
Synopses & Reviews
Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history.
It will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960s back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940s to the late seventeenth century, where the long-hidden secrets of three families the aristocratic van Warts, the Native-American Mohonks, and Walter's own ancestors, the van Brunts will be revealed.
Review
"World's End is a triumph; resonant, richly imagined and written with unfailing eloquence." Publishers Weekly
Review
"[A] vision more engaging in outline than in detail....A queasy complement to Boyle's first historical novel, Water Music..." Library Journal
Synopsis
Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history.
It will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960's back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940's to the late seventeenth century, where the long-hidden secrets of three families--the aristocratic van Warts, the Native-American Mohonks, and Walter's own ancestors, the van Brunts--will be revealed.
About the Author
T.C. Boyle is the
New York Times bestselling author of ten novels and has published seven collections of short fiction. He received the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel
World's End and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. His stories appear regularly in the
New Yorker,
GQ,
Esquire, and
Playboy.
Visit his Web site at www.tcboyle.com.