Big Brother, Shriver Lionel

Автор: Lionel Shriver
Название: The New Republic
ISBN: 0007459912 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007459919
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. `A superbly witty political satire` THE TIMES

Автор: Lionel Shriver
Название: Big Brother
ISBN: 0007299494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007299492
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 2075 р.
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Автор: Shriver, Lionel
Название: We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in
ISBN: 0062119044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062119049
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1974 р.
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Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities.

Like Shriver's charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as "sometimes searing . . . and] impossible to put down."

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Mandibles
ISBN: 000756077X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007560776
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: `Shriver`s intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining` FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
ISBN: 006232828X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062328281
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1974 р.
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With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction.

In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the "bancor." In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. "Deadbeat Nation" being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation.

The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their ninety-seven-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also--as the U.S. economy spirals into dysfunction--the challenge of sheer survival.

Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil, while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. An expat author, their aunt, Nollie, returns from abroad at seventy-three to a country that's unrecognizable. Her brother, Carter, fumes at caring for their demented stepmother, now that an assisted living facility isn't affordable. Only Florence's oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets.

The Mandibles is about money. Thus it is necessarily about bitterness, rivalry, and selfishness--but also about surreal generosity, sacrifice, and transformative adaptation to changing circumstances.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Game Control
ISBN: 0007578016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007578016
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don`t like people.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Perfectly Good Family
ISBN: 0007578024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007578023
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Описание: Following the success of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
ISBN: 0007560753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007560752
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: `Shriver`s intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining` FINANCIAL TIMESThe brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin.

Автор: Shriver, Lionel
Название: We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 006112429X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061124297
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1857 р.
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Описание: The compelling and resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Ordinary Decent Criminals
ISBN: 0062390589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062390585
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1857 р.
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A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication--an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland

For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveler without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin favors, she manages an apartment, a job, a lover, and never tarries past the first signs of ennui.

Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. After twenty years of ritualized violence, this city, too, is exhausted--a town where when one more bomb explodes in the city center, old ladies blow the dust off their treacle cakes and count their change. Here the lanky and spiteful Farrell O'Phelan, former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, technically Catholic but everyone's aggravation, wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's affair with the curious Estrin is nonetheless a meeting of two loners; like hers, Farrell's marathoning around the planet has become a running in place. In deadlocked Northern Ireland, it has become harder and harder to believe that anything is happening at all.

A grand tragi-comedy--one of the earliest displays of the ambition and intelligence that has since earned Lionel Shriver worldwide acclaim--Ordinary Decent Criminals is about conflict groupies, people terrified of domesticity, who stir up anguish in their lives and their countries to avoid the greater horror of what lies closest to home.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Female of the Species
ISBN: 0007564015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007564019
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Checker and the Derailleurs
ISBN: 0007564031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007564033
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician`s heart.