Game Control: A Novel
Autor Lionel Shriveren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2007
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.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780061239502
ISBN-10: 006123950X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 006123950X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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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.
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.
Recenzii
“One of the best works of fiction about Africa I’ve ever read.” — The New Statesman
“Lionel Shriver has written a sardonic, sexy, salutary novel about, of all things, population control.” — The New Scientist
“Shriver steers her plot through some truly outrageous argument. But her work is all the more valuable for its flagrant defiance of political correctness...the controversy that consumes [the story] is compelling.” — The Times (London)
“Every now and then a modern novel about Africa comes along that neither trades on the continent as ‘exotica’ nor piously makes literary capital out of human misery—that doesn’t go woozy at the sight of a wildebeest, that might be more cruel than caring, but in fact isn’t. John Updike’s The Coup was one such, as was Paul Theroux’s Jungle Lovers; Lionel Shriver, an American woman already praised for Ordinary Decent Criminals, has produced another.” — Times Literary Supplement
“Lionel Shriver has written a sardonic, sexy, salutary novel about, of all things, population control.” — The New Scientist
“Shriver steers her plot through some truly outrageous argument. But her work is all the more valuable for its flagrant defiance of political correctness...the controversy that consumes [the story] is compelling.” — The Times (London)
“Every now and then a modern novel about Africa comes along that neither trades on the continent as ‘exotica’ nor piously makes literary capital out of human misery—that doesn’t go woozy at the sight of a wildebeest, that might be more cruel than caring, but in fact isn’t. John Updike’s The Coup was one such, as was Paul Theroux’s Jungle Lovers; Lionel Shriver, an American woman already praised for Ordinary Decent Criminals, has produced another.” — Times Literary Supplement
Notă biografică
Lionel Shriver's fiction includes The Mandibles; Property; 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, adapted for a 2010 film starring Tilda Swinton. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She's a regular columnist for the Spectator in Britain and Harper's Magazine in the US. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.
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From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a 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.
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a 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.