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A Friend of the Earth Paperback - 2001
by T. C. Boyle
Blending idealism and satire, this story set in the year 2025 addresses universal questions of human love and the survival of the species. Global warming has collapsed the biosphere, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife reenters his life.
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In the tradition of The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the universal questions of human love and the survival of the species. In the year 2025 global warming is a reality, the biosphere has collapsed, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife re-enters his life.
Both gritty and surreal, A Friend of the Earth represents a high-water mark in Boyle's career-his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with genuine compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect from his work.
Both gritty and surreal, A Friend of the Earth represents a high-water mark in Boyle's career-his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with genuine compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect from his work.
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- Title A Friend of the Earth
- Author T. C. Boyle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 60595th
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2001-09-01
- ISBN 9780141002057 / 0141002050
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Extinct animals
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99462217
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Entertainment Weekly, 10/31/2008, Page 67
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