The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?Soon Edison’s slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her fitness-freak husband Fletcher insane. After the brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: it’s him or me.Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: why we overeat and whether extreme diets ever really work. It asks just how much sacrifice we’ll make to save single members of our families, and whether it’s ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-05-09
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780007481651
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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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.

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'Glorious, fearless ... possibly her very best' OBSERVER 'Her best novel yet' INDEPENDENT 'A brilliant writer. She has a strong, clear and strangely seductive voice. The characters are strong ... so moving it will make you want to gasp or cry' SUNDAY TIMES 'Piercingly bleak in tone and formally original in execution ... reminding us, not a moment too soon, that Shriver is a novelist as well as a polemicist' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'From the start I was gripped. Once again, Shriver has provided much food for thought' DAILY MAIL 'Lionel Shriver's Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive heft' NEW YORK TIMES 'Big Brother finds the funny - and the pathos - in fat' USA TODAY