A Friend of the Earth

by T. C. Boyle

In the year 2025, when global warming and the collapse of the biosphere have resulted in the extinction of most species, Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is the caretaker for the strange menagerie of animals kept by a rock megastar in southern California. Years ago, Tyrone was a convicted ecoterrorist, estranged from his wife and daughter. Now his daughter, Sierra, re-enters his life. In a series of flashbacks to the 1980s and '90s, Ty's romance with Sierra's mother, their revolutionary activities, and his years on the lam are recounted.

Available editions of A Friend of the Earth

	9780736656818, Audio Cassette, Books on Tape, 2001 None currently available

	9780670891771, Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, 2000 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780670891771

	9780141002057, Paperback, Penguin Group USA, 2001 $1.12 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780141002057

Publisher Notes

Set in a grim near-future 2025 A.D. southern California, this novel follows the adventures of an ecoterrorist whose efforts to save the planet unwittingly place his own family at risk. By the author of The Tortilla Curtain. Reprint.

Media Reviews

"Most of the themes that Boyle entertains here--the consequences of American excess and media hype, the vagaries of class, the macho male's secret fear of women--have appeared in his fiction before. But here he sets himself the challenge of using his impressive arsenal of literary tricks and tropes in the service of a more earnest exploration. The ecological D-Day he posits is compelling and complex....Progress, Boyle tells us, is never a clear climb. This assured novel gives us haunting images to prove the point...."

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