wants nothing more than to return home to his family
Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world
and probably not for good
A microcosm of Columbian life
and when he is best ignored—a better sense of what is
A Friend Of The Earth Condition:Good wants nothing more than toIf, as we are frequently cautioned, ecological collapse is imminent, the future might someday resemble T. C. Boyle's vision of Southern California, circa 2025: strafing wind, extortionate heat, vast species extinction, and a ramshackle, dispirited populace. A more bleak backdrop part Blade Runner, part Silent Spring for his eighth novel is difficult to imagine. But the ever mischievous, ever inventive Boyle is all too willing to disoblige; and so, in