Author: | T.C. Boyle | ISBN: | 9781101567975 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | September 1, 2001 |
Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
Author: | T.C. Boyle |
ISBN: | 9781101567975 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication: | September 1, 2001 |
Imprint: | Penguin Books |
Language: | English |
**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.
**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.