Lionel Shriver

eBook, ePUB

Should We Stay or Should We Go (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times

'Hilarious... Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs... a very funny book' Sunday Times

'Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny' Metro

'Shriver said that her favourite novels are those that pack both an intellectual and emotional punch. With Should We Stay or Should We Go, she's added triumphantly to their number' The Times

'Witty and thought-provoking' Woman's Weekly

'I think Shriver's novels are wonderful... fun, smart and, perhaps because of their author's unconventional political views, unlike anything else you'll read' Financial Times

'Entertaining and poignant' Daily Mail

'Very moving... Shriver has the magic ability to make the reader invested in the fate - fates, I should say - of her characters'Daily Telegraph

'Wickedly witty' Spectator

'Decidedly timely' Scotsman

'This sharp-elbowed satire is also a brusquely tender portrait of enduring love' Washington Post

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Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband Cyril - both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties - make a pact: to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty.

A lot can change in thirty years, however...

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. Do they honour their agreement? And if not, will they live to regret it?

'Some books become so popular that the lucky author can thereafter churn out any old cobblers, confident in the knowledge that it will be published and find an audience. Lionel Shriver never took that easy route' Irish Independent

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Autor

LIONEL SHRIVER'S novels include the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008458584
• Artikelnr.: 61669444

Rezensionen

"A wild romp," - Bookreporter.com

"Shriver said that her favourite novels are those that pack both an intellectual and emotional punch. With Should We Stay or Should We Go, she's added triumphantly to their number." - The Times (UK)

"Her best novel since The Post-Birthday World . . . . A return to form, merging Shriver's better instincts as both novelist and social critic." - Kirkus Reviews

"This sharp-elbowed satire is also a brusquely tender portrait of enduring love." - Washington Post

"A delight to read. . . . Wildly inventive and sometimes hilarious . . . Shriver may be a contrarian-but she has a sense of humor about it. More to the point, she never lets her politics interfere with the sheer zest of her imagination." - Seattle Times

"I think Shriver's novels are wonderful . . . fun, smart and, perhaps because of their author's unconventional political views, unlike anything else you'll read." - Financial Times

"Shriver delivers on a high-concept premise full of alternative narratives based around themes of illness and aging. . . . Readers will be entranced by Shriver's freewheeling meditation on mortality and human agency." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Entertaining and poignant." - Daily Mail

"Very moving . . . Shriver has the magic ability to make the reader invested in the fate-fates, I should say-of her characters." - Daily Telegraph (London)