The Motion of the Body Through Space, Shriver Lionel

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 1781255679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781255674
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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: We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 006112429X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061124297
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: 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 understandher teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver's charged and incisive laternovels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin isa piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, familyties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as"sometimes searing . . . and] impossible to put down."--Newark Star Ledger

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: Shriver, Lionel
Название: We need to talk about kevin
ISBN: 1846687349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846687341
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Описание: Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and Kevin`s horrific rampage.

Автор: Lionel Shriver
Название: So Much For That
ISBN: 0007271077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007271078
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The extraordinary new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of `We Need to Talk About Kevin`.

Автор: Lionel Shriver
Название: The post-birthday world
ISBN: 0007245149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007245147
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Описание: The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Should We Stay or Should We Go
ISBN: 006309424X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063094246
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When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief.

Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal. To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together.

But then they turn eighty.

By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril. Were they to cut life artificially short, what would they miss out on? Something terrific? Or something terrible? Might they end up in a home? A fabulous luxury retirement village, or a Cuckoo's Nest sort of home? Might being demented end up being rather fun? What future for humanity awaits--the end of civilization, or a Valhalla of peace and prosperity? What if cryogenics were really to work? What if scientists finally cure aging?

Both timely and timeless, Lionel Shriver addresses serious themes--the compromises of longevity, the challenge of living a long life and still going out in style--with an uncannily light touch. Weaving in a host of contemporary issues, from Brexit and mass migration to the coronavirus, Shriver has pulled off a rollicking page-turner in which we never have to mourn perished characters, because they'll be alive and kicking in the very next chapter.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: The Motion of the Body Through Space
ISBN: 0062328255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062328250
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Описание: This book presents the current realities and examines the proposed reforms in doctoral education worldwide to offers a discussion of the organization of doctoral education, including historical background, the basic philosophy behind doctoral education, numbers of students and staff, numbers of universities offering doctoral study, and other relevant statistics on the region.

Автор: Shriver, Lionel
Название: Should we stay or should we go?
ISBN: 0008458561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008458560
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Описание: "The Cassandra of American letters."-New York Times

Автор: Shriver, Lionel
Название: Motion of the body through space
ISBN: 0007560818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007560813
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Описание: From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin `Enjoyably abrasive... a compelling read... sardonic and elegant` Evening Standard `Scabrously funny... few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver` Guardian

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Should We Stay or Should We Go
ISBN: 0063118904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063118904
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 3827.00 р.
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Описание:

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief.

Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal. To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together.

But then they turn eighty.

By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril. Were they to cut life artificially short, what would they miss out on? Something terrific? Or something terrible? Might they end up in a home? A fabulous luxury retirement village, or a Cuckoo's Nest sort of home? Might being demented end up being rather fun? What future for humanity awaits--the end of civilization, or a Valhalla of peace and prosperity? What if cryogenics were really to work? What if scientists finally cure aging?

Both timely and timeless, Lionel Shriver addresses serious themes--the compromises of longevity, the challenge of living a long life and still going out in style--with an uncannily light touch. Weaving in a host of contemporary issues, from Brexit and mass migration to the coronavirus, Shriver has pulled off a rollicking page-turner in which we never have to mourn perished characters, because they'll be alive and kicking in the very next chapter.

Автор: Heller, Zo?
Название: Everything You Know
ISBN: 014103999X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141039992
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The women in Willy Muller`s life are trouble. His mother insists he eat tofu. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen, his other, even dopier, girlfriend, just wants more sex. Meanwhile, his oldest daughter, Sophie, wants him to finance her husband`s drug habit.