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A Friend of the Earth -- T. C. Boyle, Paperback
A Friend of the Earth -- T. C. Boyle, Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes an "entertaining and informative" (Chicago Tribune) novel about global warming and ecological collapse.
"Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle's humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed, and most mammals--not to mention fish, birds, and frogs--are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love"--scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions. It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. As a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, just when he's trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. Blending idealism and satire, A Friend of the Earth addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.
Author: T. C. Boyle
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780141002057
Age Range: 18-UP
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 10/31/2008 pg. 67
"Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle's humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed, and most mammals--not to mention fish, birds, and frogs--are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love"--scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions. It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. As a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, just when he's trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. Blending idealism and satire, A Friend of the Earth addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.
Author: T. C. Boyle
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780141002057
Age Range: 18-UP
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 10/31/2008 pg. 67
About the Author
T. C. Boyle is a novelist and regular contributor to The New Yorker. His novels include World's End and The Tortilla Curtain, and he has also published numerous collections of short stories. A Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Barbara.
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