Following the success of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'The Post-Birthday World', 'A Perfectly Good Family' is coming back into print after being unavailable for years. Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never...
From Publishers Weekly: Checker Secretti, musical and philosophical guru as well as drummer for the Derailleurs, a band in Queens, N.Y., faces the goading and intrigues of a rival drummer. Meanwhile, Checker is smitten with Syria Paramus, a glassblower. PW found Checker to be "a boy so radiant that his creator has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader." From Library...
From Publishers Weekly: Checker Secretti, musical and philosophical guru as well as drummer for the Derailleurs, a band in Queens, N.Y., faces the goading and intrigues of a rival drummer. Meanwhile, Checker is smitten with Syria Paramus, a glassblower. PW found Checker to be "a boy so radiant that his creator has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader." From Library...
From Publishers Weekly: Checker Secretti, musical and philosophical guru as well as drummer for the Derailleurs, a band in Queens, N.Y., faces the goading and intrigues of a rival drummer. Meanwhile, Checker is smitten with Syria Paramus, a glassblower. PW found Checker to be "a boy so radiant that his creator has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader." From Library...
From Publishers Weekly: Novelist Shriver offers this aptly named romance about two aspiring tennis pros who fall in love and marry only to come to blows on the court and subsequently at home. The narration by soap-opera actress Renée Raudman brings an air of theatricality to the occasionally stiff prose. Under her command, the story becomes an old-fashioned romance replete with...
From Publishers Weekly: Novelist Shriver offers this aptly named romance about two aspiring tennis pros who fall in love and marry only to come to blows on the court and subsequently at home. The narration by soap-opera actress Renée Raudman brings an air of theatricality to the occasionally stiff prose. Under her command, the story becomes an old-fashioned romance replete with...
From Publishers Weekly: Novelist Shriver offers this aptly named romance about two aspiring tennis pros who fall in love and marry only to come to blows on the court and subsequently at home. The narration by soap-opera actress Renée Raudman brings an air of theatricality to the occasionally stiff prose. Under her command, the story becomes an old-fashioned romance replete with...
Contemporary American Fiction. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible — and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young...
Contemporary American Fiction. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible — and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young...
Contemporary American Fiction. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible — and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young...
Adult fiction. Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear,...
A risk taker with a protean imagination, Shriver (_The Post-Birthday World_) has produced another dazzling, provocative novel, a witty and timely exploration of the failure of our health-care system. Shep Knacker's long-cherished plan to use the million dollars from the sale of his handyman business to retire to a tropical island receives a gut-wrenching blow when his wife,...
A risk taker with a protean imagination, Shriver (_The Post-Birthday World_) has produced another dazzling, provocative novel, a witty and timely exploration of the failure of our health-care system. Shep Knacker's long-cherished plan to use the million dollars from the sale of his handyman business to retire to a tropical island receives a gut-wrenching blow when his wife,...
A risk taker with a protean imagination, Shriver (_The Post-Birthday World_) has produced another dazzling, provocative novel, a witty and timely exploration of the failure of our health-care system. Shep Knacker's long-cherished plan to use the million dollars from the sale of his handyman business to retire to a tropical island receives a gut-wrenching blow when his wife,...
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 is a 2016 novel, the thirteenth by American author Lionel Shriver. The year is 2029, and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life, the dollar, is under attack. In a coordinated move by the rest of the world’s governments, the dollar loses all its value. The American President declares that the States will default on all...
Critics had divided reactions to Lionel Shriver's latest novel (after the Orange Prize?winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, *1/2 Sept/Oct 2003). Though most considered her use of the dual narrative a clever literary device, not all agreed that it worked. Some found the alternating storylines confusing, while others were bored by the exhaustively catalogued details of Irina's...
Critics had divided reactions to Lionel Shriver's latest novel (after the Orange Prize?winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, *1/2 Sept/Oct 2003). Though most considered her use of the dual narrative a clever literary device, not all agreed that it worked. Some found the alternating storylines confusing, while others were bored by the exhaustively catalogued details of Irina's...
Critics had divided reactions to Lionel Shriver's latest novel (after the Orange Prize?winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, *1/2 Sept/Oct 2003). Though most considered her use of the dual narrative a clever literary device, not all agreed that it worked. Some found the alternating storylines confusing, while others were bored by the exhaustively catalogued details of Irina's...
The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry Eva never really wanted to be a mother — and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to...
The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry Eva never really wanted to be a mother — and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to...
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