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| Title | : | The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (995 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006246714X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
“A provocative and very funny page-turner…” (Wall Street Journal)“….A powerful workPrescient, imaginative and funny, it also asks deep questions.” (The Economist)“Hilarious, brilliant new novel” (Elle)“Known for tackling big contemporary issues head-on, Shriver deals skilfully here with the implications of economic meltdown. The novel, set in a near-ish future, tells of the plight of the once wealthy Mandible family and the decline of four generations into penury, thieving and prostitution.” (Financial Times (A Summer Pick of 2016))“Shriver has a sharp social eye and a blistering comic streak, and her focus on nailing down the economic nitty-gritty of her plot is only one piece of the great, disconcerting fun she has in sending the world as we know it so vividl
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Only Florence’s oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets.The Mandibles is about money. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the “almighty dollar” plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the “bancor.” In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. “Deadbeat Nation” being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. economy spirals into dysfunction—the challenge of sheer survival.Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can’t buy olive oil, while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation.The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their ninety-seven-year-old patriarch dies. With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks o
Lionel Shriver's novels include The New Republic, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal
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