The Mandibles - Boek Lionel Shriver (000756077X)

 
 
  • The Mandibles - Boek Lionel Shriver (000756077X)

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Online sinds
23 mei 2018
EAN
9780007560776
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
400 pagina's

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Het Boek The Mandibles (000756077X) geschreven door Lionel Shriver bestel je op bruna.nl! '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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Artikelnummer
1155986
Online sinds
23 mei 2018
EAN
9780007560776

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
400 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
januari 2017
Afmetingen
20 x 13,1 x 3,3 cm

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