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Big Brother

Name: Big Brother
Brand: Harper Perennial
SKU: 9780061458606
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Contributors:

Lionel Shriver

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Family Life, Literary

Book Topic:

Marriage & Divorce, Siblings

Series:

P.S.

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Release Date:

2014-06-10

ISBN 13:

9780061458606

Weight:

0.65 lbs

Size:

8.10 x 5.40 x 1.20 inches

Pages:

400

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"Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger. . . . With honesty, precision and humour, she conveys all the boredom and exhilaration of weight loss, along with its tendency to threaten the people around you." --Guardian

From the New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver, a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity

When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the Iowa airport, she doesn't recognize him. In the four years since she last saw him, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? And it's not just the weight. Edison breaks her husband Fletcher's handcrafted furniture, makes overkill breakfasts for the family, and entices her stepson not only to forgo college but to drop out of high school. After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: it's him or me. But which loyalty is paramount, that of a wife or a sister? For without Pandora's support, surely Edison will eat himself into an early grave.

Rich with Shriver's distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat--an issue both social and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much we are obligated to help members of our families, and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.

About the Author
Shriver, Lionel: -

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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