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Title: GAME CONTROL
By: Lionel Shriver, Laurel Lefkow
Format: Downloadable audio file

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 0008223254
ISBN 13: 9780008223250
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pub. date: 1 June, 2017
Edition: Unabridged edition
Description: From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.
Synopsis: From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.Set against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africa, Game Control is a wry, sardonic conspiracy story about bad ideas and good intentions.
Publication: UK
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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