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About T.C. Boyle
See more books from this AuthorThe career of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, as seen in Boyle's rangy, entertaining tenth novel--which bears a strong resemblance to his 1993 blockbuster, The Road to Wellville.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleKinsey's ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.'' Of course, the transformation of public attitudes and private behavior is not something that can be punctually dated -- that was Larkin's point -- but the Kinsey Report, as it came to be known, surely marked a watershed in a century-long assault on ...
Sep 19 2004 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleOur narrator is the fictional John Milk - only Prok and his wife Mac are based on real people - a shy literature student who stumbles into his role as Prok's protege.
Feb 13 2005 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleThe Inner Circle by TC Boyle 432pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 The Inner Circle can be seen as a companion piece to Tom Wolfe's vastly inferior novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons.
Feb 12 2005 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleSuch accusations as "corrupter of morals," "pseudoscientific snoop," "libeler of womankind" and "communist" (the all-purpose, no-muss no-fuss standby for the times) damned Kinsey at the same time he was being blessed with best-seller-dom.
Dec 14 2005 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleThey become involved in a sexual relationship, and soon after that, Milk becomes involved with Kinsey's wife, Mac --- with Kinsey's consent and even encouragement.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleLike Drop City, Boyle's superb, affectionate 2003 critique of commune living, The Inner Circle dredges up respect for its subject, but Boyle understands the human animal well enough to know the consequences of putting Kinsey's radical ideas into practice.
Oct 18 2004 | Read Full Review of The Inner Circle''I mean, doesn't that strike you as trivial?'' But little seems trivial to the good sex soldier Milk, even filming a thousand men as they masturbate on a tarp to determine how many ''dribbled'' and how many ''spurt.'' Though it takes a while to figure this out, ''Circle'''s hero is smart,...
Sep 10 2004 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleUnder the tutelage of Prok, Milk becomes the initial member of “the inner circle” and takes up relations with the professor’s wife, Mac, in deference to the project.
Mar 22 2005 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleBoyle has opted not to skewer Kinsey, and Milk's insipid objectivity makes it tough to get a lock on Kinsey's enigmatic personality.
| Read Full Review of The Inner CircleWritten with great narrative skill, this biographical novel focuses on Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a charismatic, sexually obsessed zoologist who entered history and infamy when he switched the focus of his research from the reproductive cycle of gall wasps to the sexual physiology of ‘the human animal” i...
Jan 20 2005 | Read Full Review of The Inner CircleNarrated by Kinsey's first research assistant, the fictional John Milk, The Inner Circle follows Kinsey from his early years as an obscure zoology professor at Indiana University to his later years as a highly controversial international sex celebrity.
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