A Friend of the Earth

Beschreibung

_______________________<BR>'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES)<BR>'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (TELEGRAPH)<BR>'Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year' (MAIL)<BR>'Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize' (SUNDAY TIMES)<BR><BR>It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak living managing a pop star's private zoo.<BR><BR>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 a radical activist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea.<BR><BR>Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea re-enters his life.<BR><BR>Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future.

Angaben vom Händler.