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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780061239502
ISBN number: 006123950X
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: July 01, 2007
Publishing house: Harper Perennial
Release Date: July 03, 2007
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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 shambolic modern-day Africa—a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel Shriver's Game Control is a wry, 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.
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Lionel Shriver specializes in writing wildly funny, gripping and touching stories about painful, hard-to-discuss feelings. Her other novels have touched upon resentment and conflict between parents and children, spouses and siblings. All of these are wince-inducing situations because they highlight problems in relationships that are supposed to be loving, but are often more complicated in private.
This book's characters are aid workers in Africa with compassion fatigue. They wonder in private what cannot be ackowleged in public: Would the world be better if all the poor people just disappeared?
Game Control was provocative, but lacked the humour and wit of her other novels. If you're a Shriver collecter, then you should read it. If you are looking for an entry point to the Shriver canon, start with Kevin.
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