A book title can be an invitation, or an evocation, or in the case of Lionel Shriver’s latest novel – a synopsis.
”'Shriver really makes you think about the nature of money. ”'A provocative and very funny page-turner” - Wall Street Journal ”'Hilarious and brilliant … scary in the best possible way” - Elle ”'A sharp social eye and a blistering comic streak … great, disconcerting fun” - The New Yorker ”'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 Prescient, imaginative and funny, it also asks deep questions” - The Economist ”'A powerful work investigating the fragility of the financial world. ”'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 ”'Brilliant satire… frankly terrifying” - SARAH CHURCHWELL, Best Books of the Summer, Guardian ”'A gleeful nightmare, it made me snort with laughter even as I was shuddering” - SARAH WATERS, Best Books of the Summer, Guardian if the test of a futuristic novel is its eerie proximity to the present, this passes with flying colours” - Daily Mail ”'Shriver is fast becoming the go-to novelist for some of the big issues. ”'All too chillingly plausible…profoundly frightening” - Observer ”'A tale that fizzes with ideas and jokes.
”'As ever, Shriver cuts close to the bone!. Praise for THE MANDIBLES: A Family, 2029-2047. Perhaps only Florence’s oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets… 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. 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. Each family member must contend with disappointment, but also - as the effects of the downturn start to hit - the challenge of sheer survival. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies, but now their inheritance is turned to ash. This apocalypse is financial – the dollar is in meltdown, America’s national debt far beyond repayment. In this eerily prophetic novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, a once-wealthy family faces the prospect of ruin. ‘It’s scaring the hell out of me’ Tracy Chevalier ‘Unsettling as it is entertaining’ Financial Times THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.
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