{"product_id":"a-friend-of-the-earth-9780141002057","title":"A Friend of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of LitHub's \"365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic.\" -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Originally published in 2000, T. C. Boyle's prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapse \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eT. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141002057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/31\/2008 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"T. C. Boyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391942553781,"sku":"9780141002057","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cc0dc4ca-07ce-41d1-a845-80651239d143.jpg?v=1719949356","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-friend-of-the-earth-9780141002057","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}