{"title":"Lionel Shriver","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mania-paperback","title":"Mania - Paperback","description":"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101164015839,"sku":"9780063345409","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OqV-ZZyFE99780063345409.webp?v=1781068384"},{"product_id":"so-much-for-that-paperback","title":"So Much for That - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters... A highly engrossing novel.\" -- \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Lionel Shriver (\u003cem\u003eThe Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c\/em\u003e), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the obscene cost of medical care in modern America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Post-Birthday World\u003c\/em\u003e comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShep Knacker has long saved for The Afterlife: an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with talking, thinking, seeing, and being--and enough sleep. When he sells his home repair business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go. Weary of working as a peon for the jerk who bought his company, Shep announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust returned from a doctor's appointment, Glynis has some news of her own: Shep can't go anywhere because she desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep's nest egg for The Afterlife soon cracks under the strain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnriched with three medical subplots that also explore the human costs of American health care, \u003cem\u003eSo Much for That\u003c\/em\u003e follows the profound transformation of a marriage, for which grave illness proves an unexpected opportunity for tenderness, renewed intimacy, and dry humor. In defiance of her dark subject matter, Shriver writes a page-turner that presses the question: How much is one life worth?\u003c\/p\u003e--Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Post-Birthday World\u003c\/em\u003e comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShep Knacker has long saved for \"The Afterlife\" an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with \"talking, thinking, seeing, and being\"--and enough sleep. When he sells his home repair business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go. Weary of working as a peon for the jerk who bought his company, Shep announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust returned from a doctor's appointment, Glynis has some news of her own: Shep can't go anywhere because she desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep's nest egg for The Afterlife soon cracks under the strain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnriched with three medical subplots that also explore the human costs of American health care, \u003cem\u003eSo Much for That\u003c\/em\u003e follows the profound transformation of a marriage, for which grave illness proves an unexpected opportunity for tenderness, renewed intimacy, and dry humor. 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Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his \"hovercraft repose.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico's sisters, while finding her way into Gloria's heart and even, briefly, Nico's. But as Martine's disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother's altruism and the \"migrant crisis\" in general--and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased loosely on a program a New York City mayor floated but did not initiate, \u003cem\u003eA Better Life\u003c\/em\u003e is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102196666591,"sku":"9780063482142","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qQmFQiuYs99780063482142.webp?v=1781079125"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lionel-shriver.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}