If you like the sound of this, you'll love The Mouseproof Kitchen by Saira Shah. Vintage Shriver and easily one of my favourite novels of the last few years. Big Brother, a tragicomic meditation on family and food, may be her best book yet. It has a twist in the tale that will take your breath away and have book groups arguing for years to come. Download or stream Big Brother by Lionel Shriver, Alice Rosengard for free on hoopla. The fellowship of Lionel Shriver fanatics is about to grow larger, so to speak. Lionel Shriver is at her shimmering best with this wonderful, bold, fresh novel. He drives Pandoras husband so mad that he gives her an ultimate: its your brother or me. Edison eats everything in sight, cooks pancakes morning, noon and night and is not entirely honest about how he has got into this state. As Lionel Shriver’s narrator in Big Brother tells her obese older sibling, after he claims he got hungry when she catches him mid-pig-out (spooning icing sugar from the carton), You got. When Edison, a jazz pianist whose weight has ballooned in recent years, comes to live with his sister Pandoras family, its like throwing a hand grenade into her life. What would you sacrifice to save someone you loved?
Written in the same intense, wordy tone as Kevin, this is the story of Pandora, who is asked to choose between her husband and her massively overweight brother. Now shes written a whole novel about family and over-eating. Most of all its about the lies we all tell ourselves to get through this life.Ī few years ago the author of wrote about the tragic death of her brother from obesity-related causes.
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver is out on 9th May 2013Ībout the fragility of marriage, the uniqueness of the sibling relationship and the pain of everyday life (although that makes it sound depressing - its not).
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