{"product_id":"a-friend-of-the-earth-von-t-c-boyle","title":"A Friend of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e(TIMES)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea re-enters his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781526608918\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781526608918","offer_id":39417633341533,"sku":"9781526608918","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/60c209db-877f-4c28-99ae-0a23bc7be679.jpg?v=1780978186","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/a-friend-of-the-earth-von-t-c-boyle","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}