{"product_id":"9780141002057","title":"A Friend of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of LitHub's \"365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic.\" -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e Originally published in 2000, T. C. Boyle's prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eT. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48662894051563,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":43.94,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780141002057-1.jpg?v=1781607530","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780141002057","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}