The New Republic

Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture--probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of personality, explores what makes certain people so magnetic, and reveals the deep frustrations of feeling overshadowed by a life-of-the-party who may not even be present.

"Shriver is a master of the misanthrope. . . . A] viciously smart writer." --Time


Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 03/27/2012
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.05w x 1.24d
ISBN: 9780062107190
Large Print

Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 07/22/2013 pg. 76

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.