A Friend of the Earth
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2001
Verlag
Penguin USSeitenzahl
368
Maße (L/B/H)
19,7/12,9/2,1 cm
Gewicht
391 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-14-100205-7
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the award winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes an entertaining and informative (Chicago Tribune) novel about global warming and ecological collapse.
Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle s humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere 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.
Blending idealism and satire, A Friend of the Earth addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.
Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle s humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere 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.
Blending idealism and satire, A Friend of the Earth addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.
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A friend of the earth is one of the very few stories about a catastrophe, without a hero in it that really is a hero. An old environmentalist lives now in a world where everything he fought for is long gone. Even though it took me a long time to read this book, because it was depressing, I still think it really is worth reading. The figure of Ty Tierwater, the main figure, is very controversial but understandable, and somehow human at the same time, which brings this story to live.
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