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Humor & Satire
"Ms. Shriver portrays [her characters] with psychological depth and wry humor, dramatizing a subject that's rarely been exploited in fiction, and pulling off a novel that not only works, but rocks." -- New York Times Book... See More
Literature & Fiction
Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her... See More
Family Life
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and... See More
Literature & Fiction
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So... See More
Literary Fiction
"Shriver shows in a masterstroke why character is fate and how sport reveals it." -- New York Times Book Review From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We... See More
Humor & Satire
Set against the vivid backdrop of 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... See More
Contemporary Fiction
When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical... See More
Humor & Satire
Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver -- author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture -- probes the... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Shriver's debut is a 'literary' novel without an iota of pretentiousness. It reads with the grace of a well-written spy story, but conveys some of its author's early wisdom about what our humanity both demands of and grants... See More
Literary Fiction
"Complex and nervy, Shriver's clever meditation will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered how things might have turned out had they followed, or ignored, a life-changing impulse." -- People (Critic's Choice) This dazzling... See More
Literary Fiction
In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise -- which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life -- an aging... See More
Literary Criticism
"A rare voice, someone who challenges orthodoxies in the way that many journalists and public intellectuals claim to do but don't. It is bracing to spend time in the company of such a smart, plain-spoken and unpredictable... See More
Literature & Fiction
A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In 'The Self-Seeding Sycamore', a widow wages war upon her neighbour's garden, and makes a surprising... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters... A highly engrossing novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk... See More
Literary Fiction
A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication -- an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent... See More
Literature & Fiction
" Nous ne sommes qu'à douze ans du futur tel que nous le présente Lionel Shriver. Son nouveau roman, satirique et ébouriffant d'intelligence, est certes classique, en ceci qu'il sert de véhicule à une enquête politique... See More
Literary Fiction
The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the... See More
Literature & Fiction
Per quale ragione «L'ho sposato, lettore mio» è una delle frasi più celebri e citate della letteratura inglese? La risposta, tutt'altro che ovvia, risiede nel capolavoro da cui è tratta: Jane Eyre (1847), la storia di... See More
Literary Fiction
Short story writers often say that, for maximum dramatic effect, you should arrive fashionably late to a scene. After years of living in the literary wilderness, it seems the short story's own moment has finally arrived. The... See More
Literary Fiction
"A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today's reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims... The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel's... See More