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Book summaryIn 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. 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...." More books like this
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