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T. C. Boyle, T. Coraghessan Boyle, T.C. Boyle, Tom Boyle (Beteiligte)

A Friend of the Earth


2019. 288 S. 7.795276 in
Verlag/Jahr: BLOOMSBURY TRADE; BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING 2019
ISBN: 1-526-60891-X (152660891X)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-526-60891-8 (9781526608918)

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An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; ´Boyle´s prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along´ (Daily Telegraph)
An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; ´Boyle´s prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along´ (Daily Telegraph)

It´s 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star´s private zoo. It is the last one in southern California and vital for teh cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about envorinmental causes that as an eco-terrorist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he´s just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle´s story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future
Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year Daily Mail
Boyle, T. C.
T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.