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

Product details

• Authors: T. C. Boyle, Boyle T. C.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 02.05.2019
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)
• EAN: 9781526608918
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-0891-8
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 20 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: Satire, 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, Degrowth, Social impact of environmental issues, black comedy, 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, Natural world extinction, Plastic pollution risk habitat, Vulnerable ocean environmentalism, Water Music, Budding Prospect, Human Fly Talk, Riven Rock Friend, Without Hero Tortilla Curtain, Inner Circle Tooth Claw, After Plague Drop City, Animal creature zoo captive, Ecofascism eco terrorism, Road Wellville, Descent Man species, San Miguel Relive Box, Women When Killing’s Done, World’s End East, Greasy Lake Other Stories, If River was Whisky, Harder They Come Terranauts