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A Friend of the Earth

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The bioshere 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 star’s private menagerie that “only a mother could love” – scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. It wasn’t 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 he’s trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR T.C.
Boyle

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World’s End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World’s End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc.

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