A Friend of the Earth

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xiv], 271. Quarter-bound grey cloth over pumpkin-yellow paper boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket art by Marty Blake.

Signed by Author to title page.

T. C. Boyle's eighth novel. In the year 2025 global warming is a reality, the biosphere has collapsed, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife re-enters his life.

By the author of World's End (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (1993); and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of the Prix Médicis étranger). His short stories regularly appear in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy. "One of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation." –The New York Times