A Friend of the Earth

An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' ( Daily Telegraph ) It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as an eco-terrorist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future

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Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year Daily Mail

Product details

• Authors: T. C. Boyle, Boyle T. C.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2019
• EAN: 9781526608918
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-0891-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Satire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, NATURE / Endangered Species, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Satirical fiction and parodies, Dystopian and utopian fiction, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Endangered species and extinction of species, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary