Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world
students and managers alike
and probably not for good
wants nothing more than to return home to his family
McGinniss lures readers irresistibly forward
A Friend Of The Earth Condition:Good Madeline Whittier is allergic 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