A Friend of the Earth

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"Both entertaining and informative . . . hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." —Chicago Tribune
TPt is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality.
I The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals— ¦I ^ JL 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 H^HPH^k that "only a mother could love"—scruffy hyenas, J^PKr jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.
It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a pas-
_ sionate 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.
T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and... Tovább

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"Both entertaining and informative . . . hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." —Chicago Tribune
TPt is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality.
I The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals— ¦I ^ JL 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 H^HPH^k that "only a mother could love"—scruffy hyenas, J^PKr jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.
It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a pas-
_ sionate 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.
T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that 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,Tfte New York Times
uAs disaster tales go, this is a sly, hip one . . . Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes, and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse itself?" —Jhe Washington Post
Cover design by Witliam Webb • Cover photograph by Paul Souders/Ston'e • Author photo by Pablo Campos Vissza