2025, ISBN: 9780374158170

New York. 2000. September 2000. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0670891770. 271 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Marty Blake. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his eigh… More...

New York. 2000. September 2000. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0670891770. 271 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Marty Blake. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his eighth novel, T. C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species. It is the year 2025, and Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie of the species ‘only a mother could love'—scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but pointed way, and most of the major mammalian species—not to mention fish, birds and frogs—are extinct. At one time, as we see in alternating chapters, Ty 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 environmental group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his wife, Andrea, and his daughter, Sierra (who herself became an icon of the Movement as an inveterate tree-sitter in the late nineties). Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. Both gritty and surreal, A FRIEND OF THE EARTH represents a high-water mark in Boyle's career—his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with real compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect of his work. inventory #15870 ISBN: 0670891770., 0, New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374158177. 257 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Dorothy Handelman. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When an Irish civil servant abandons his wife and 12-year-old son for two summers to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, the stage is set for dramatic changes in the household. Despondent from the lack of income, the mother commits suicide, leaving Nicholas and his father to eke out a meager living. Years later, after a series of mishaps, Nicholas' father burns his paintings, their house, and himself. Nicholas, now himself a civil servant, is a man with a mission. He casts aside his current life to try to regain the only surviving painting of his father's work. His quest takes him to Galway, where he finds much more than he ever anticipated. inventory #24581 ISBN: 0374158177., 0<

1997, ISBN: 0374158177

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[EAN: 9780374158170], [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux], LITERATURE IRELAND, New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374158177. 257 pages. hardcover… More...

[EAN: 9780374158170], [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux], LITERATURE IRELAND, New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374158177. 257 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Dorothy Handelman. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When an Irish civil servant abandons his wife and 12-year-old son for two summers to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, the stage is set for dramatic changes in the household. Despondent from the lack of income, the mother commits suicide, leaving Nicholas and his father to eke out a meager living. Years later, after a series of mishaps, Nicholas' father burns his paintings, their house, and himself. Nicholas, now himself a civil servant, is a man with a mission. He casts aside his current life to try to regain the only surviving painting of his father's work. His quest takes him to Galway, where he finds much more than he ever anticipated. inventory #24581, Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780374158170

New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374158177. 257 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Dorothy Handelman. keywords: Literature Ireland… More...

New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374158177. 257 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Dorothy Handelman. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When an Irish civil servant abandons his wife and 12-year-old son for two summers to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, the stage is set for dramatic changes in the household. Despondent from the lack of income, the mother commits suicide, leaving Nicholas and his father to eke out a meager living. Years later, after a series of mishaps, Nicholas' father burns his paintings, their house, and himself. Nicholas, now himself a civil servant, is a man with a mission. He casts aside his current life to try to regain the only surviving painting of his father's work. His quest takes him to Galway, where he finds much more than he ever anticipated. inventory #24581 ISBN: 0374158177., 0<

ISBN: 9780374158170

Wiliam Coughlan abandons his wife and his son to paint the pictures he believes God has commanded. He disappears into the west of Ireland on a mission, following a prompting that may or m… More...

Wiliam Coughlan abandons his wife and his son to paint the pictures he believes God has commanded. He disappears into the west of Ireland on a mission, following a prompting that may or may not have been real to daub the canvas and stare at the Atlantic light.On an island off the west coast, a boy gifted in music falls mute and lame while playing with his sister. It is a moment that scars the heart of Isabel Gore, as she helps her brother Sean home across the island to meet the disbelief and sorrow of her parents.Two moments, two stories, each apparently as random and uncertain as the other. Four Letters of Love brings them together in a lyrical effusion of bracing freshness and power. This is a novel about destiny, acceptance, the tragedies and miracles of everyday life, and about how all our stories meet in the end. Media >, [PU: Farrar, Straus and Giroux]<