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A Friend of the Earth

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by T. C. Boyle
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Availability:In StockContributor:T. C. BoyleAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2001-09-01Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780141002057ISBN-10:141002050UPC:9780141002057Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Satire, Literary, HumorousSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC4QPP9RSE
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780141002057ISBN-10:141002050UPC:9780141002057Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Satire, Literary, HumorousSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC4QPP9RSE

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published sixteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World's End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995; his 2003 novel Drop City was a finalist for the National Book Award. His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.


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