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A Friend of the Earth
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ISBN10: 0141002050
ISBN13: 9780141002057
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780141002057
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
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.
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.
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