A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. ‘A superbly witty political satire’ THE TIMES Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate. ‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents suddenly dry up?
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A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. ‘A superbly witty political satire’ THE TIMES
Praise for THE NEW REPUBLIC: ‘It takes guts to write a satire about terrorism – and Lionel Shriver has guts. Shriver is an incisive social satirist with a clear grip on the ironies of our contemporary age’ LA TIMES ‘Shriver has the kind of cojones few English-language novelists possess, male or female’ GLOBE & MAIL ‘The New Republic stands at the confluence of a number of fine comic traditions . . . we can only be thankful that Shriver got round to dusting down this comic tour de force for the outing it richly deserves’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Written with intelligence, wit and pizzazz’ DAILY MAIL ‘She is one of the most magnetically compelling writers working today. Witty, caustic and worldly’ WALL STREET JOURNAL
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• This timely book attracted a huge amount of media interest on publication. • The New Republic is a complete departure from Lionel’s other works and is an opportunity to reach a potentially different readership. • We Need to Talk About Kevin, has sold over 770,000 copies in the UK. • So Much for That has sold over 65,000 copies in the UK. • In the literary tradition of Gulliver’s Travels and Scoop this unnervingly timely novel is as darkly comic as it is politically engaging.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007459919
Publisert
2013-03-28
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Vekt
280 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

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Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five different languages. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.