- Social aspects of Global environmental change, Fiction, Zoos, Global environmental change
"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.
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Contemporary and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 273
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747552512
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