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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0063345390
ISBN-13
9780063345393
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27061614112
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mania : a Novel
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Dystopian, Family Life, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
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0.9 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
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2023-029364
Reviews
"Clever." -- Los Angeles Times "Merciless and funny . . . . the novel's themes--of society's quick pivots when it comes to socially acceptable beliefs, and how close friendships can be poisoned by the culture wars--feel like a welcome distraction, given their slightly (but not unbelievably) absurd elements." -- The Economist "Readers craving sharp social commentary need look no further than Shriver, who is at the top of her game with this scary-smart and scathing satire." -- Booklist (starred review) "Shriver . . . suffuses this cogent tale of a toxic friendship with contrarian political commentary. . . . Those sympathetic toward Shriver's anti-groupthink message will find much to enjoy." -- Publishers Weekly "Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely . . . I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold." -- John Cleese, "Lionel Shriver is oddly unpredictable--and that's what keeps her interesting. She seems to actively resist satisfying expectations." -- Washington Post "Her best novel since The Post-Birthday World . . . . A return to form, merging Shriver's better instincts as both novelist and social critic." -- Kirkus Reviews "The Motion of the Body Through Space is notionally about fitness fanaticism, but it's really about physical decline and mortality . . . . What's remarkable is that Shriver, who is at her most lyrical and compelling when contemplating her characters' ambivalence, is so inordinately assured of her positions on real-world issues that many of us find confounding." -- Ariel Levy, The New Yorker "An exotic and inventive first novel ... It is hard not to admire the breadth and consistency of Lionel Shriver's inventiveness and the exuberance of her imagination." -- New York Times Book Review "The world that the Mandible family must negotiate is evoked in seamless detail... One thing I really like is her coining of made-up slang for her younger generation of characters and her resolutely materialist analysis of what could be coming." -- Irvine Welsh, The Guardian, "Readers craving sharp social commentary need look no further than Shriver, who is at the top of her game with this scary-smart and scathing satire." -- Booklist (starred review) "Lionel Shriver is oddly unpredictable--and that's what keeps her interesting. She seems to actively resist satisfying expectations." -- Washington Post "Her best novel since The Post-Birthday World . . . . A return to form, merging Shriver's better instincts as both novelist and social critic." -- Kirkus Reviews "The Motion of the Body Through Space is notionally about fitness fanaticism, but it's really about physical decline and mortality . . . . What's remarkable is that Shriver, who is at her most lyrical and compelling when contemplating her characters' ambivalence, is so inordinately assured of her positions on real-world issues that many of us find confounding." -- Ariel Levy, The New Yorker "An exotic and inventive first novel ... It is hard not to admire the breadth and consistency of Lionel Shriver's inventiveness and the exuberance of her imagination." -- New York Times Book Review "The world that the Mandible family must negotiate is evoked in seamless detail... One thing I really like is her coining of made-up slang for her younger generation of characters and her resolutely materialist analysis of what could be coming." -- Irvine Welsh, The Guardian
Synopsis
"A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today's reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims . . . . The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel's guiding concept cuts close to the bone with no anesthesia. Shriver isn't one to tip-toe around her subjects. She still knows how to poke the bear. In this case, the bear is us." -- Boston Globe Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirits in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes. With echoes of Philip Roth's The Human Stain, told in Lionel Shriver's inimitable and iconoclastic voice, Mania is a sharp, acerbic, and ruthlessly funny book about the road to a delusional, self-destructive egalitarianism that our society is already on., "A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today's reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims . . . . The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel's guiding concept cuts close to the bone with no anesthesia. Shriver isn't one to tip-toe around her subjects. She still knows how to poke the bear. In this case, the bear is us." -- Boston Globe Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirits in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes. With echoes of Philip Roth's The Human Stain , told in Lionel Shriver's inimitable and iconoclastic voice, Mania is a sharp, acerbic, and ruthlessly funny book about the road to a delusional, self-destructive egalitarianism that our society is already on.
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PS3569.H742M365 2024
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