{"product_id":"blue-skies-3","title":"Blue Skies","description":"Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like 'jewelry, living jewelry' to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young 'Burmie' she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliantly imaginative . . . in a terrifying way' (Annie Proulx), \u003cem\u003eBlue Skies\u003c\/em\u003e follows in the tradition of T. C. Boyle's finest novels, combining high-octane plotting with mordant wit and shrewd social commentary. Here Boyle, one of the most inventive voices in contemporary fiction, transports us to water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, where Cat and her hapless, nature-loving family-including her eco-warrior parents, Ottilie and Frank; her brother, Cooper, an entomologist; and her frat-boy-turned-husband, Todd-are struggling to adapt to the 'new normal,' in which once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters happen once a week and drinking seems to be the only way to cope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there's more than meets the eye to this compulsive family drama. Lurking beneath the banal façade of twenty-first-century Californians and Floridians attempting to preserve normalcy in the face of violent weather perturbations is a caricature of materialist American society that doubles as a prophetic warning about our planet's future. From pet bees and cricket-dependent diets to massive species die-off and pummeling hurricanes, \u003cem\u003eBlue Skies\u003c\/em\u003e deftly explores the often volatile relationships between humans and their habitats, in which 'the only truism seems to be that things always get worse.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eco-thriller with teeth, Boyle's \u003cem\u003eBlue Skies\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a tragicomic satire and a prescient novel that captures the absurdity and 'inexpressible sadness at the heart of everything.'","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53842741592402,"sku":"9781324095187","price":11.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_83f1dd4b-d7a8-4435-b993-07796c505d1a.jpg?v=1782449214","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/blue-skies-3","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}