A Friend of the Earth

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In his eighth növel, T. C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of humán love and the survival of the species.
It is the year 2025, andTyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's priváté menagerie of the species "only a mother could love"—scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but pointed way, and most of the major mammalian species—not to mention fish, birds and frogs— are extinct.
At one ti me , as we see in alternating chapters, Ty 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 environmental group Earth Foreverl, he unwittingly endangered both his wife, Andrea, and his daughter, Sierra (who herself became an icon of the Movement as an inveterate tree-sitter in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In his eighth növel, T. C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of humán love and the survival of the species.
It is the year 2025, andTyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's priváté menagerie of the species "only a mother could love"—scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but pointed way, and most of the major mammalian species—not to mention fish, birds and frogs— are extinct.
At one ti me , as we see in alternating chapters, Ty 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 environmental group Earth Foreverl, he unwittingly endangered both his wife, Andrea, and his daughter, Sierra (who herself became an icon of the Movement as an inveterate tree-sitter in the late nineties). Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life.
Both gritty and sunreal, 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 real compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect of his work. Vissza