A Friend of the Earth

ISBN: 0141002050

Author: Boyle, T.C.

Condition: New

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 Boyles humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion.-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIt 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 stars private menagerie that only a mother could love-scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.It wasnt 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 hes 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.