Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: novel, kevin, need
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1582432678
ISBN-13: 9781582432670

A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family, for readers of Rosellen Brown’s Before and After and Jane Hamilton’s A Map of the World. That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child’s character is self-evident. But such generalizations provide cold comfort when it’s your own son who’s just opened fire on his fellow students and whose class photograph--with its unseemly grin--is blown up on the national news. The question of who’s to blame for teenage atrocity tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadour

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, species, female
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 006171139X
ISBN-13: 9780061711398

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 t

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, world, birthday, post
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061187895
ISBN-13: 9780061187896

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.

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, kevin, need
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 006072448X
ISBN-13: 9780060724481

In this gripping novel of motherhood gone awry, Lionel Shriver approaches the tragedy of a high-school massacre from the point of view of the killer’s mother.In letters written to the boy’s father, mother Eva probes the upbringing of this more-than-difficult child and reveals herself to have been the reluctant mother of an unsavory son. As the schisms in her family unfold, we draw closer to an unexpected climax that holds breathtaking surprises and its own hard-won redemption. In Eva, Shriver has created a narrator who is touching, sad, funny, and reflective. A spellbinding read, W

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, family, perfectly
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0061239496
ISBN-13: 9780061239496

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 stunnin

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: novel
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0061458589
ISBN-13: 9780061458583

From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness. Shep Knacker has long saved for "The Afterlife": an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with "talking, thinking, seeing, and being"—and enough sleep. When he sells his home repair business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twe

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2011-03-08
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061458597
ISBN-13: 9780061458590

Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it’s never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he’s leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her. Yet Glynis has some news of her own: she’s deathly ill. Shep numbly puts his dream aside, while his nest egg is steadily devastated by staggering bills that their health insurance only partially covers. Astonishingly, illness not only strains their marriage but saves it.