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In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love.
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Contemporary, intimate, spare and open-ended.
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- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Lionel Shriver
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 571
- Publisher
- The Borough Press, Anagrama, HARPER
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- French, Spanish, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780061187896
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