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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061239496
ISBN number: 0061239496
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: July 01, 2007
Publishing house: Harper Perennial
Release Date: July 03, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 159182
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into 'his' house as well, it's war.
Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.
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Lionel Shriver's writing has made me not want to waste my time reading mediocre literature. I don't think she wants me to spend less on books, but she's definitely to blame for my snobbery.
Keep it up, Lionel.
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I loved The Post Birthday World. I thought the style and flow was extrordinary and I couldn't put it down. This novel was the exact opposite experience for me. While a deep character study, the complexities of each character were too predictable for me. I wasn't sure where the story itself was going and had to force myself to continue reading only to be disappointed in the ending.
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This book is okay, I can't seem to get into it and I'm halfway through. I enjoyed We'll Have to Talk About Kevin, (by the same author), much better.
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I kept wondering if Shriver could resolve the book's central conflict by the end of the story without copping out. She did. It was funny, clever, made perfect sense and I didn't see it coming. I liked this novel a lot.
If you're just starting out with Lionel Shriver, I'd recommend Kevin first, this one subsequent and then Birthday.
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If anyone has ever captured the total ambivalence most siblings (who are honest) experience, it's Lionel Shriver. I did not find this book to be nearly as compelling as her astounding masterpiece "We Need To Talk About Kevin" but it has its great paragraphs, certainly. A very good friend of mine (going through adult sibling madness, as I did--I no longer speak to my two siblings) read this book after I did, and we both agreed: WE DO NOT LIKE THESE PEOPLE. We don't like them at all. This caused me to put the book down at one point in an irritated way and debate whether to continue. Almost exactly at that point, however, it got pretty absorbing--Shriver picked up her always amazing thread and I must say, the ending truly stunned me. Be warned: these people as individuals are not endearing and their various behaviors border on repugnant sometimes, but Shriver always constructs completely believeable people, and in this context, she has not failed. I'm still so struck by "Kevin" that maybe I could not do justice to this book, but it does have its own merit. I mean, when three adult siblings fight over their dead parents' house, it can't be boring.
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