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Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 1781255679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781255674
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZEONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood.

How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.

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.

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: Big Brother
ISBN: 0007271107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007271108
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Описание: From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. `[Shriver`s] best novel yet` INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Perfectly Good Family
ISBN: 0007578024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007578023
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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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 Timothy
Название: Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most
ISBN: 0374535825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374535827
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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On a quest for what matters most, Timothy Shriver discovers the joy of being fully alive


As chairman of Special Olympics, Timothy Shriver has dedicated his life to the world's most forgotten minority-people with intellectual disabilities. And in a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, when we've lost our sense of what's ultimately important, when we hunger for stability but get only uncertainty, he has looked to them for guidance. Fully Alive chronicles Shriver's discovery of a radically different, and inspiring, way of life. We see straight into the lives of those who seem powerless but who have turned that into a power of their own, and through them learn that we are all totally vulnerable and totally valuable at the same time.
In addition, Shriver offers a new look at his family: his parents, Sargent and Eunice Shriver, and his uncles, John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, all of whom were resolute advocates for those on the margins. Here, for the first time, Shriver explores the tremendous impact his aunt Rosemary, born with intellectual disabilities, had on his entire family and their legacy.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Standing Chandelier
ISBN: 0008265275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008265274
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: `This early stocking filler of a novel ... is a brutal treat` Daily Mail From the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: The Mandibles LP: A Family, 2029-2047
ISBN: 006246714X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062467140
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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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.