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Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize-winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals.She is widely published as... show more
Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize-winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals.She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications.She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.
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Books I have read and loved rated it 13 years ago
So Much For That lacks all the force of So Much for Kevin. My copy has an article at the very end (by Shriver) that is a condensed version of the book, which I wish I had either read instead, or not read at all. An old friend of Shriver, Terri had mesothelioma, and clearly Shriver regrets having be...
jbradway
jbradway rated it 14 years ago
I didn't earn the right to claim that this book is horrible. I did earn the right to say that the first third is, though. I can't go on.Except for Shep, the characters in this novel are loathsome, nasty people. Glynis, Shep's wife and cancer patient, is weaponized, revealing her disease to friends a...
popsiclesinbed
popsiclesinbed rated it 14 years ago
What's amazing about Lionel Shriver is that she never shrinks from expressing the meanest things we think about our friends, family, and selves but at the same time can have such sympathetic, even lovable, characters.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 14 years ago
blurb - A dramatisation of Lionel Shriver's unflinching new novel which portrays the economic and emotional fall-out of serious illness. Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But...
auntieannie
auntieannie rated it 14 years ago
Loved it."Accompanied by a strumming guitar and uplifting flute cadenzas that in his boyhoodd typified alternative folk services in his father's church, these warnings were delivered with a lilting, lobotomized pleasantness -- the tone of voice in which one might read bedtime stories to small childr...
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