Damaged copy, for reading only Standard-sized.

Damaged copy, for reading only Standard-sized.

New York. 2000. September 2000. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good

New York. 2000. September 2000. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670891770. 271 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Marty Blake. keywords: American Literature. DESCRIPTION-In his eighth novel, T. C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species. It is the year 2025, and Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie of the species ‘only a mother could love'-scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but pointed way, and most of the major mammalian species-not to mention fish, birds and frogs-are extinct. At one time, as we see in alternating chapters, Ty 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 environmental group Earth Forever! , he unwittingly endangered both his wife, Andrea, and his daughter, Sierra (who herself became an icon of the Movement as an inveterate tree-sitter in the late nineties). Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. Both gritty and surreal, A FRIEND OF THE EARTH represents a high-water mark in Boyle's career-his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with real compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect of his work. inventory #15870.

Size: 6x1x9; Minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Size: 6x1x9; Minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Size: 6x1x9; Paperback book in good condition.

Size: 6x1x9; Paperback book in good condition.

Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 271 p.

Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 271 p.

Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Like New. Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on slip, laid in. In protective mylar cover.

Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Like New. Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on slip, laid in. In protective mylar cover.

2000 Boyle, T C A FRIEND OF THE EARTH NY: Viking, c2000 first printing 271pp 8vo Upper edge of textblock "dusty" else fine bright unread hardcover in fine d/j.

2000 Boyle, T C A FRIEND OF THE EARTH NY: Viking, c2000 first printing 271pp 8vo Upper edge of textblock "dusty" else fine bright unread hardcover in fine d/j.

Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 271 p.

Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 271 p.