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T. Coraghessan Boyle
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T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE

The Art of Fiction No. 161
Interviewed by Elizabeth E. Adams
Issue 155, Summer 2000
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
Is your view of the world as bleak as those of your characters?

BOYLE
No and yes. I’d like to have better news. . . . I don’t mean to pull a Beckett on you here, but I do not have a congenial view of the parameters of human life as we know it. In the absence of God, we have science or, more specifically, biology. And the very genetic determinism I posited in World’s End as a way of perhaps shaking off my inherited demons—and I’m talking a tendency toward drugs and alcohol here—is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.
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