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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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- “These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwi…”Lionel Shriver
- “Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then…”Lionel Shriver
- “Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.”Lionel Shriver
- “I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds…”Lionel Shriver
Anger: more sayings
- “Grief and anger shrink my world, and I resent this. They seem to paralyze my memory of happier times, of frie…”Roger Zelazny
- “Brother—”“I thought we’d already decided we weren’t that, either.”Grabbing his shoulder, I stopped him before…”Molly McAdams
- “When you fill life with mourning and complaints, your accomplishments will be a little lower than success.”Auliq Ice
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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