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About Lionel Shriver
American author, journalist, and cultural commentator
Lionel Shriver is an American author, journalist, and cultural commentator. She is known for fiction and for her sharp public commentary, especially through her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Beyond her fiction, she has worked as a journalist and as a commentator on cultural questions, which gives her writing a distinctly observant and argumentative edge.
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Marriage: more sayings
- “I cheated on my wife for years. Had children with different mothers.”Nigel Benn
- “That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.”Cyrus Broacha
- “Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”George Bernard Shaw
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Books by Lionel Shriver
We need to talk about Kevin
2003
Post-Birthday World
2007
Big Brother
2013
So much for that
2010
Double fault
1997