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Title: East Is East (Contemporary American Fiction) by T. Coraghessan Boyle ISBN: 0-14-013167-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A thought-provoking read
Comment: There are some highly comedic scenes in this novel of a young seaman of Japanese-American parentage who finds himself in the midst of a Georgia swamp after jumping ship, but the reader is soon aware that it is the aura of impending doom which makes this story compelling. The tension increases chapter by chapter as we watch helplessly as ironic misunderstandings and prejudices bring about an inevitable tragic ending. The prejudice goes both ways; the Japanese-American seaman has as many skewed views of the Americans he finds on the Georgia Island as they do of him. This is really two stories in one as the writers' colony and the shallow, self-important people who inhabit it are a story unto themselves. The author's vivid descriptions of the Georgia swamplands are actually uncomfortable to read; one starts scratching at imaginary bug-bites while turning pages. The sad fact is that young Hiro Tanaka is not at home anywhere; as a gaijin, or half-breed, he has no place in Japanese society, and the welcome he thought he would find in America - the melting pot - is far from what he had dreamed. Boyle is a gifted writer, and East is East is as good as anything else he has written.
Rating: 5
Summary: Boyle creates a world where we can laugh only at ourselves.
Comment: Boyle's stunning novel about a Japanese merchant marine who heaves him himself off his ship and ends up in the world of micro america Georgia is engaging from begining to end. Boyle's characters represent the quirks and fears of everyone who has an encounter with another culture. Boyle goes beyond the language barrier and stereotypes that differentiate one culture from another to show us how our ingrained sense of nationalistic pride can detract our sense of understanding one another's cultures. He use's the Japanese man as a focal point while also pointing out our own predjudices that we have about other Americans. It reminds a lot of Russel Banks' novel "Trailer Park" in the way that it is written. The way boyle and Banks both seem to give the reader a sense of every character and where they are coming from...everybody that we meet in the story has a story of their own. Fantastic. Read and then re-read.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unfunny Cartoon
Comment: Has American literature really come to this. T.C. Boyle thinks that he is a latter day Swift. No way. He is merely a biggot who has created an unfunny cartoon.
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Title: World's End (Contemporary American Fiction) by T. Coraghessan Boyle ISBN: 0140299939 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle ISBN: 014023828X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by T. Coraghessan Boyle ISBN: 0140065504 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1983 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Riven Rock by T. Coraghessan Boyle ISBN: 014027166X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Friend of the Earth by T. Coraghessan Boyle ISBN: 0141002050 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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