Friend of the Earth

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of <i>The Tortilla Curtain</i> comes an entertaining and informative (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>) novel about global warming and ecological collapse.</b><br><b> </b><br><b>Funny and touching antic and affecting . . . while Boyle's humor is as black as ever he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism comedy with compassion.--Michiko Kakutani <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>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 pop star's private menagerie that only a mother could love--scruffy hyenas jackals warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. <p/>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. <p/>Blending idealism and satire <i>A Friend of the Earth</i> addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.