Greasy Lake (T.C.Boyle)
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T. Coraghessan Boyle’s Greasy Lake is a short-story whose characters consist of a bunch of nineteen year old greasers who are considered experts in the social qraces once they achieve the following: “quick with a sneer, able to manage a Ford with lousy shocks over a rutted and gutted blacktop road at eighty-five while rolling a join as compact as a Tootsie Roll Pop stick” (Boyle 1). Boyle uses more references and allusions both topical and classical, stream-of-thought consciousness and fragmented reality than most modern writers, and his characters in this story reveal a sort of mindless, violent existence reminiscent of the teens portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange. The plot basically revolves around a night of drunken mayhem on greasy lake, including violent beatings, destruction of property, attempted rape and murder. Thrown into the mayhem to create that much more chaos is a mixture of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and other chemicals. These are real teens with no direction or skills, substance abuse pr
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Approximate Word count = 729
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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