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A Friend of the Earth Paperback T. C. Boyle
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. 100% Money-Back Guarantee.”
- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780141002057
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0141002050
ISBN-13
9780141002057
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1939769
Product Key Features
Book Title
Friend Of the Earth
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
General, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
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 "As disaster tales go, this is a sly, hip one...Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life''s extremes and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse itself?" — The Washington Post "Both entertaining and informative...hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." — Chicago Tribune, 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 "As disaster tales go, this is a sly, hip one...Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse itself?" —The Washington Post "Both entertaining and informative...hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." —Chicago Tribune, Praise for A Friend of The Earth : "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 "As disaster tales go, this is a sly, hip one...Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse itself?" -- The Washington Post "Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "Both entertaining and informative...hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." -- Chicago Tribune " A Friend of the Earth is about people and nature coming to terms with each other. In many ways it is a far more convincing argument for sustainable living in nature than any nonfiction environmental tract." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Boyle gives us a vivid, grim, hilarious portrait of our world . . . he has a marvelous gift for translating large-scale environmental scenarios into immediate, palpable terms . . . What gives A Friend of the Earth 's comically dismal future its bite is how profoundly it is embedded in the present . . . Boyle's energetic prose achieves a fine balance between wacky comedy and serious reflection." -- The San Diego Union-Tribune "Ripped from tomorrow's headlines, the ecobiography of Tyrone Tierwater--failed monkeywrencher, ex-husband, ex-con, ex-zookeeper of the last Patagonian fox, and still-grieving father of the tree-dwelling Sierra, a twenty-first-century martyr to the redwoods." -- Outside "The story careens along with the breathless authority of a roller coaster . . . In A Friend of the Earth , Boyle sets himself a new challenge, swinging a leg wide to plant a foot solidly on new ground. Part antic comedy, part ecological intelligencer, part heartfelt plaint, it is a comic novel on grievous themes, a serious exploration of tragic truths. It not only marks Boyle's progress as a literary talent but demonstrates his consistent ability to entertain." -- Los Angeles Times "Boyle is still one of the most inventive and exhilerating novelists around, showing how you can drive a narrative and still have fun with language." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Boyle's wonderful writing is simultaneously wild, talky, and charming. If A Friend of the Earth is a provoker of conscience, it is also--and foremost--rich entertainment." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 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 "As disaster tales go, this is a sly, hip one...Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse itself?" -- The Washington Post "Both entertaining and informative...hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." -- Chicago Tribune
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
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 collapse 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 pos 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. T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
QL88
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- j***e (103)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat condition
- u***e (65)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseShipped & delivered quickly. However... it's a different cover than shown (this bothers me the most), and the front & back covers are fairly creased. There was also a wallet size picture of 2 teenagers shoved in it. Obviously that isn't factored in to my rating, but I would think the company would have flipped through the book before selling. I didn't do more than brush my fingers along the fore edge, barely fanning the pages, doing a superficial check for internal damage, when it slipped out.
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Seller feedback (432,420)
- j***e (103)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat condition
- u***e (65)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseShipped & delivered quickly. However... it's a different cover than shown (this bothers me the most), and the front & back covers are fairly creased. There was also a wallet size picture of 2 teenagers shoved in it. Obviously that isn't factored in to my rating, but I would think the company would have flipped through the book before selling. I didn't do more than brush my fingers along the fore edge, barely fanning the pages, doing a superficial check for internal damage, when it slipped out.
- d***5 (25)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchase:)