The Post-Birthday World - Couverture souple

Shriver, Lionel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554681693 ISBN 13 : 9781554681693

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2008

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Original and involving...convincing and beautifully told. Highly recommended.” (Library Journal)

“Daring [and] dazzling.” (More Magazine)

“Hugely entertaining...tackles the dueling human needs for passion and security with fierce, witty honesty.” (Vogue)

“Shriver writes with elegance and a loaded intensity...she is a brilliant, witty storyteller and the book is utterly compelling.” (Weekend Australian)

“[A] tour de force in literary structure and mastery of language...engrossing.” (Sunday Telegraph (Australia))

“Provocative...stunningly intense.” (New York Daily News)

“Provocative....The Post-Birthday World is...as unflinching as they come.” (New York Times)

“...unique...” (South-East Advertiser (Australia))

“Witty, formidably bright author...Lively parts...” (Denver Rocky Mountain News)

“Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters and putting them in less-than-simple situations...Highly engrossing novel...” (San Francisco Chronicle)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Can the course of life hinge on a single kiss? Whether American expatriate Irina McGovern does or doesn’t lean into a certain pair of lips in London will determine if she stays with her smart, disciplined, intellectual American partner, Lawrence, or runs off with Ramsey—a wild, exuberant British snooker star she and her husband have known for years.
    In The Post-Birthday World, international bestselling author Lionel Shriver uses a parallel-universe structure to examine the implications—large and small—of whom we choose to love. As Irina’s two departing futures unfold, Shriver pits one flawed-but decent man against another with all the subtlety, perceptiveness and drama that made her last novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, the winner of the 2005 Orange Prize.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1554681693
• ISBN 13: 9781554681693
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544