After the Plague (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas John Boyle
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: Mostly the late 1990’s, with one story set in the earlier twentieth century and another set in the near future
- Setting: California, Alaska, Detroit, upstate New York, Mexico, and southern New England
- Principal Characters: Ned, Paula Turk, Jason Barre, Philip, Melanie, Achates Mcneil, Lester, China, Hart Simpson, John, Ellen, Larry, Mrs. B., Baldasare Forestiere, Francis Xavier “Jed” Halloran III
- Genres: Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Yards or backyards, Accidents, Death or dying, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Cruelty, End of the world, Old age or elderly people, Hedonism, Snow, Elderly abuse, Viruses, Rejection
- Locales: California, Detroit, MI, New York, Mexico, New England, Alaska
T. Coraghessan Boyle, one of the most entertaining interpreters of contemporary American culture, has a sense of humor that just will not quit. His satire The Road to Wellville (1993) revealed the roots of the modern American obsession with health and thinness in the sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan, run by none other than John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. The Tortilla Curtain (1995) contrasted the lives and experiences of yuppies and illegal immigrants in Southern California, and A Friend of the Earth (2001) fantasized about a postapocalyptic...
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