A Friend of the Earth
One of LitHub's 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library Originally published in 2000, T. C. Boyle's prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapseIt 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 a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-100205-7
- EAN: 9780141002057
- Produktnummer: 8346761
- Verlag: Penguin Putnam
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 286 g
- Gewicht: 286
Über den Autor
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published sixteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World's End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995; his 2003 novel Drop City was a finalist for the National Book Award. His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
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