{"product_id":"a-friend-of-the-earth-t-c-boyle","title":"A Friend of the Earth (T. C. Boyle)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e(TIMES)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e(TELEGRAPH)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e(MAIL)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e(SUNDAY TIMES)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak living managing a pop star's private zoo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the last one in southern California, and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as a radical activist committed to \u003ci\u003eEarth Forever! \u003c\/i\u003ehe endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, when he's just trying to survive  in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea re-enters his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eT. C. Boyle is the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, \u003ci\u003eSan Miguel, \u003c\/i\u003efollowed by the second volume of his collected stories, \u003ci\u003eT. C. Boyle Stories II\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65891711222109,"sku":"K073416695","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7341669500001A.jpg?v=1789125028","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/a-friend-of-the-earth-t-c-boyle","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}