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A Friend of the Earth
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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A Friend of the Earth
Narrated by:
Scott Brick
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Publisher's Summary
A Friend of the Earth opens in the year 2025, as Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tidewater ekes out a bleak living in southern California, managing a rock star's private menagerie. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most of the major mammalian species are extinct.
Once Ty was so seriously committed to environmental causes that he became an ecoterrorist and convicted felon. Once he unwittingly endangered both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now when he's just trying to survive, Andrea comes back into his life. What happens as the two slip into a reborn involvement makes for a gripping and topical story told in Boyle's uniquely funny and serious voice.
©2000 T.C. Boyle (P)2000 Books on Tape, Inc.
What the critics say
"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, The New York Times)
"As disaster tales go, this is a sly, hip one...Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse itself?" ( The Washington Post)
"Both entertaining and informative...hits like a warning shot from twenty-five years into the future." ( Chicago Tribune)