Book description
It's 2025. Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living
in southern California, managing a pop-star's private menagerie, holding
some of the last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a
reality. In his youth, Ty had been so serious about environmental issues
that as an ecoterrorist committed to Earth Forever! he had endangered
the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when
the past seems far behind him and he is just trying to survive in a
world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life . . .
Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, in A FRIEND OF THE EARTH T. C.
Boyle gives us a story that is both a modern morality tale, and a
provocative vision of the future. 'Another example of the current
awesome strength of the American novel ... if Boyle was from this side
of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker
Prize' Sunday Tribune 'A comedy with teeth from one of America's most
consistently inventive novelists' The Times It's 2025. Tyrone
O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern
California, managing a pop-star's private menagerie, holding some of the
last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a reality. In his
youth, Ty had been so serious about environmental issues that as an
ecoterrorist committed to Earth Forever! he had endangered the lives of
both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when the past
seems far behind him and he is just trying to survive in a world cursed
by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life . . . Frightening,
funny, surreal and gripping, in A FRIEND OF THE EARTH T. C. Boyle gives
us a story that is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision
of the future.
