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The Mandibles

A Family, 2029-2047

von Shriver, Lionel   (Autor)

The unputdownable Sunday Times bestselling satirical political fiction novel THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. 'Distinctly chilling' Independent 'Unsettling as it is entertaining' Financial Times 'It's scaring the hell out of me' Tracy Chevalier

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'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES

The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin.

It is 2029.

The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families.

Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also - as the effects of the downturn start to hit - the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father Carter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author, returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable.

Perhaps only Florence's oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets.

This is not science fiction. This is a frightening, fascinating, scabrously funny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too soon, from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive and topical author of our times. 

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Praise for THE MANDIBLES: A Family, 2029-2047

'As ever, Shriver cuts close to the bone! . . . Distinctly chilling' Independent

'A tale that fizzes with ideas and jokes . . . the comedy is pitch black' The Times

'All too chillingly plausible...profoundly frightening' Observer

'Shriver is fast becoming the go-to novelist for some of the big issues . . . breezy, mordantly comic . . . if the test of a futuristic novel is its eerie proximity to the present, this passes with flying colours' Daily Mail

'A gleeful nightmare, it made me snort with laughter even as I was shuddering' SARAH WATERS, Best Books of the Summer, Guardian

'Brilliant satire... frankly terrifying' SARAH CHURCHWELL, Best Books of the Summer, Guardian

'Searing... establishes her firmly as the Cassandra of American letters... I don't remember the last time a novel held me so enduringly in its grip' The New York Times

'A powerful work investigating the fragility of the financial world. Prescient, imaginative and funny, it also asks deep questions' The Economist

'Impressively sweeping... Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' Financial Times

'A sharp social eye and a blistering comic streak ... great, disconcerting fun' The New Yorker

'Hilarious and brilliant ... scary in the best possible way' Elle

'A provocative and very funny page-turner' Wall Street Journal

'Shriver really makes you think about the nature of money . . . By the end, The Mandibles had got under my skin' Evening Standard

'It's scaring the hell out of me' TRACY CHEVALIER

'A scary, depressing and convincing horror story' Spectator

'Insightful and darkly funny' Good Housekeeping 

Autoreninfo

Lionel Shriver's novels include Big Brother, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the Orange Prize-winning 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. 

Mehr vom Verlag:

Harper Collins Publ. UK

Mehr vom Autor:

Shriver, Lionel

Produktdetails

Medium: Buch
Format: Kartoniert
Seiten: 515
Sprache: Englisch
Erschienen: März 2017
Sonstiges: 091052
Maße: 200 x 131 mm
Gewicht: 367 g
ISBN-10: 000756077X
ISBN-13: 9780007560776
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