_______________________ 'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES)
'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back
and are swept along' (TELEGRAPH) 'Surreal daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best
books of the year' (MAIL) 'Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond this is the
book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize' (SUNDAY TIMES) It'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. It 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 Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter Sierra and
his wife Andrea. Now when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought
Andrea re-enters his life. Frightening funny surreal and gripping T.C. Boyle's story is
both a modern morality tale and a provocative vision of the future.
