Ordinary Decent Criminals: A Novel (P.S.)

( A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriv...)

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.

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A Perfectly Good Family (P.S. (Paperback)) A PERFECTLY GOOD FAMILY (P.S. (PAPERBACK)) By Shriver, Lionel ( Author )Jul-03-2007 Paperback

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We Need to Talk about Kevin (Japanese Edition)

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So Much for That LP: A Novel

( “Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated c...)

“Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters… A highly engrossing novel.” — San Francisco Chronicle From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family’s struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the obscene cost of medical care in modern America.

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The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (1-Apr-2008) Paperback

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By Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin (export ed) (2/23/03)

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Game Control: A Novel (P.S.)

( Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning...)

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, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition. 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. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.

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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver (12-Feb-2015) Paperback

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We Need to Talk about Kevin (Chinese Edition)

(On a Thursday of 1999, Kevin, a boy less than 16 years ol...)

On a Thursday of 1999, Kevin, a boy less than 16 years old shot 9 people in his school. His mother Eva recalled in the letters of confession she wrote to her husband her hesitation before her pregnancy, her bad feeling after giving birth to Kevin and the whole process that how her son changed into a murderer. In fact, the son was not welcomed by his mother from the beginning of his life, and the destructive character of Kevin has been frightening and troubling the mother. She tried to find out the mistakes she had made and the cause for the tragedy in her honest introspection.

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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel

( Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corl...)

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. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family 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.

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Post Birthday World Signed 1ST Edition

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Double Fault Hardcover - July 14, 1997

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We Need to Talk about Kevin (Korean Edition)

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Lionel Shriver Collection 4 Books Set, (A perfectly good family, game control, the post birthday world and double fault)

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We Need to Talk about Kevin (Japanese Edition)

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Lionel Shriver Series Collection: Post-birthday World, Double Fault, Game Control & a Perfectly Good Family

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The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.)

( American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enj...)

American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence—until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision—to surrender to temptation or to preserve her seemingly safe partnership with Lawrence—will have momentous consequences for her career, her friendships and familial relationships, and the texture of her daily life.

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Hayevim L'daber Al Kevin (We Need to Talk About Kevin, Hebrew Edition)

(אווה מעולם לא רצתה באמת להיות אמא - ודאי לא אמא לבן שאינו...)

אווה מעולם לא רצתה באמת להיות אמא - ודאי לא אמא לבן שאינו ניתן להיאהב, אשר יומיים לפני יום הולדתו ה-16 מבצע טבח המוני בבית ספרו. שנתיים אחר כך היא מתמודדת בכנות נוקבת עם שלל נושאים - נישואים, קריירה, משפחה, הוֹרוּת - דרך חליפת מכתבים עם בעלה הנעדר, פרנקלין. האם קווין נולד פסיכופת, או שמא גם היא אשמה במידה זו או אחרת בפשעיו? מה השתבש בדיוק? האם אפשר להתחקות אחר שורשי הרוע? אווה שבה ומתחבטת בשאלות אלה תוך ניתוח אכזרי של המכניזם השברירי המכונֵן את המשפחה הבורגנית באשר היא, וחושפת את פשעה הגדול ביותר כאישה וכאם: סירובה העיקש לציית לטאבו הקדוש של אֵם האוהבת את בנה, ויהי מה. חייבים לדבר על קווין הוא רומן מתח פסיכולוגי מטריד ועוכר שלווה הנקרא בנשימה עצורה עד לסופו המטלטל. זהו ספרה השביעי של הסופרת. 30 בתי הוצאה סירבו לפרסמו בטענה שמדובר בספר נפיץ ומאיים מדי, אך עם צאתו לאור הוא הפך לרב-מכר בינלאומי. הספר עובד לסרט קולנוע בכיכובה של טילדה סווינטון. ליונל שרייבר היא סופרת אמריקנית המתגוררת בלונדון. נולדה ב-1957 בשם מרגרט-אן, ובגיל 15 שינתה את שמה לשם של גבר. בגיל 40 התלבטה אִם להפוך לאֵם, אך במקום זאת כתבה ספר על אימהוּת שהשתבשה קשות. ספרה "העולם שאחרי יום ההולדת" ראה אור בהוצאת כנרת-זמורה ביתן.

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The Female of the Species: A Novel

( Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-ren...)

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 graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love—before an amazed and injured Errol's eyes. As he follows the progress of their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through subtle, cruel, and calculating manipulation.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel

(Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tild...)

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.”

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Double Fault: A Novel

( Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since sh...)

Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at twenty-three, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked, untested Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, full-tilt competition soon puts a strain on their relationship—and an unexpected accident sends driven and gifted Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair. From acclaimed author Lionel Shriver comes a brilliant and unflinching novel about the devastating cost of prizing achievement over love.

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