Rich with Shriver's distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: why we overeat and whether extreme diets ever really work. After the brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: it's him or me. Soon Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her fitness-freak husband Fletcher insane. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. 'Her best work… presents characters so fully formed that they inhabit her ideas rather than trumpet them' New Republic 'The latest compelling, humane and bleakly comic novel from the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin' Evening Standard 'Shriver is wonderful at the things she is always wonderful at. It is a conversation piece of impressive heft' New York Times 'Lionel Shriver's Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. 'Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger… glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose' Guardian 'A surprising sledgehammer of a novel' The Times Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.
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