The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2016-05-12
ISBN 10 : 9780007560769
Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (7 users)
Download or read book The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. ‘Distinctly chilling’ Independent ‘Unsettling as it is entertaining’ Financial Times ‘It's scaring the hell out of me’ Tracy Chevalier
The Mandibles
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Borough Press
Release Date : 2016-05-01
ISBN 10 : 0007560753
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (56 users)
Download or read book The Mandibles PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Borough Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel from the author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and POST BIRTHDAY WORLD. This novel deals with money, power and society's steady march towards extinction, seen through the eyes of one family.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Catapult
Release Date : 2011-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781582438870
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (582 users)
Download or read book We Need to Talk About Kevin PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this 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 remains terrifyingly prescient. Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much–adored teacher in a school shooting two days before his sixteenth birthday. Neither nature nor nurture exclusively shapes a child's character. But Eva was always uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood. Did her internalized dislike for her own son shape him into the killer he’s become? How much is her fault? Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with Kevin’s horrific rampage, all in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. A piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “impossible to put down,” is a stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family.
A Perfectly Good Family
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Borough Press
Release Date : 2015
ISBN 10 : 0007578024
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (578 users)
Download or read book A Perfectly Good Family PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Borough Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into 'his' house as well, it's war.
Should We Stay Or Should We Go
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2022-06-07
ISBN 10 : 0063094258
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (94 users)
Download or read book Should We Stay Or Should We Go PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
The Motion of the Body Through Space
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2021-05-11
ISBN 10 : 0062328298
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (328 users)
Download or read book The Motion of the Body Through Space PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable. After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he's decided to run a marathon. This from a sedentary man in his sixties who's never done a lick of exercise in his life. His wife can't help but observe that his ambition is "hopelessly trite." A loner, Serenata disdains mass group activities of any sort. Besides, his timing is cruel. Serenata has long been the couple's exercise freak, but by age sixty, her private fitness regimes have destroyed her knees, and she'll soon face debilitating surgery. Yes, becoming more active would be good for Remington's heart, but then why not just go for a walk? Without several thousand of your closest friends? As Remington joins the cult of fitness that increasingly consumes the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations, he engages a saucy, sexy personal trainer named Bambi, who treats Serenata with contempt. When Remington sets his sights on the legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he'll end up injured or dead. And even if he does survive, their marriage may not. The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.
Double Fault
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015040572342
Pages : 344 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Double Fault PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of a tennis romance. She is Willie, he is Eric and both are rising tennis stars, although she is the more famous of the two. But after they marry he overtakes her in fame, beating her on their first wedding anniversary, and after that the marriage goes downhill.
The Female of the Species
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Release Date : 1987
ISBN 10 : 0374154422
Pages : 405 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (154 users)
Download or read book The Female of the Species PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1987 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray Kaiser, a proud and fierce fifty-nine-year-old anthropologist, journeys to Kenya to make a documentary and is reduced to miserable dependence when she falls in love with a young graduate assistant
The Bleeding Heart
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : 0374114323
Pages : 427 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (114 users)
Download or read book The Bleeding Heart PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1990 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FICTION-GENERAL
So Much for that
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher :
Release Date : 2015
ISBN 10 : 0007578067
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (578 users)
Download or read book So Much for that PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shep Knacker is bored with his humdrum existence. He's sold his business for a million dollars & is ready to embark on his 'Afterlife' - a one way ticket to a small island off the coast of Tanzania. But when his wife is diagnosed with an extremely rare & aggressive form of cancer, Shep's dreams of an exotic adventure are put on hold.
Download or read book Property PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by HarperCollins publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver 'Genius' Stylist 'Phenomenal' Observer 'Brilliant' The Times
Big Brother
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher :
Release Date : 2014
ISBN 10 : 0007271107
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (271 users)
Download or read book Big Brother PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognise him. Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet and know-it-all monologues drive her health-and-fitness freak husband Fletcher insane. Fletcher eventually delivers his wife an ultimatum - it's him or me. Putting her marriage and two adoptive children on the line, Pandora chooses her brother - who, without her support in losing weight, will surely eat himself into an early grave.
Game Control
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Borough Press
Release Date : 2015-02-12
ISBN 10 : 0007578016
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (578 users)
Download or read book Game Control PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Borough Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa - a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort - Lionel Shriver's 'Game Control' is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions.
Checker and the Derailleurs
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Penguin Group
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015015502423
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Checker and the Derailleurs PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The Post-Birthday World
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Borough Press
Release Date : 2015-02-12
ISBN 10 : 0007578032
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (578 users)
Download or read book The Post-Birthday World PDF or another Format written by Lionel Shriver and published by Borough Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player.
The End Is Not Yet
Author : John W. de Gruchy
Publisher : Fortress Press
Release Date : 2017-10-15
ISBN 10 : 9781506438504
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (56 users)
Download or read book The End Is Not Yet PDF or another Format written by John W. de Gruchy and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book comes from Matthew‘s gospel: "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet." (24:6-8). This locates The End Is Not Yet within popular religious rhetoric about the "end time" and more sophisticated theological discourse on eschatology or Christian hope for a better world premised on faith in God. But is such faith still justified? And if so, how are we to describe and embody it in the life of the world?
Download or read book Hatred PDF or another Format written by M J Dees and published by M J Dees. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrorist attack on Parliament plunges the country on to a destructive path. Jim just wants his discharge from the Army and return to his life in academia. He returns from military service to find a country in chaos and a new regime bent on blaming everything on citizens with foreign heritage like him and his wife, Annabel. She just wants to practise her music and live in a house in the country but with no-one lending to those with foreign heritage, the chance of building on the land they bought is impossible and it is confiscated by the new regime. When they are evicted they find themselves and their daughter in a struggle for survival. Can they survive long enough to witness the end of the regime or will they become victims of hatred? Hatred is the first book in M J Dees' new dystopian series, Collapse. "Excellent story, gritty & really gets you thinking." Sam Stokes, Beta reader. "... vision of the brutality of the regime and its obvious flaws and failings and the desperate ever-increasing hardline initiatives to uphold it, are all very believable if chilling. I certainly won't forget it in a hurry, a thoroughly thought-provoking read which I have really enjoyed." Beta reader. "It felt as though the book was based on what is going on here in the states and what might be in store for us down the road." Peggy Coppolo, Beta reader. "Was totally drawn into the plot/characters and love your descriptive narrative. As I have been reading, it has been playing as a film in my imagination. A testament to such good writing." Miss A D Morrey, Beta reader
