Description

In the history of The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle mixes satire and idealism in a tale that addresses the success of the species and the questions of human love. Within the year 2025 global-warming is just a fact, the biosphere has flattened, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a full time income as care-taker of the pop-star's personal zoo when his second ex-partner re-enters his life. Both gritty and unique, A Buddy of our Planet presents a higher-water level in Boyle's job-his heavy ability of cultural problem is efficiently mixed here with real empathy for his people and the nature of pure exciting playfulness visitors came to anticipate from his work.