Lionel Shriver
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born
May 18, 1957
gender
female
place of birth
Gastonia, NC, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
avg rating: 3.81
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| 15 distinct works
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 4.02 — 2091 ratings — published 2003 19 editions |
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The Post-Birthday World (Hardcover) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 3.51 — 1425 ratings — published 2007 9 editions |
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Double Fault (Paperback) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 2.88 — 80 ratings — published 2006 4 editions |
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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 3.31 — 45 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Game Control: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 3.32 — 25 ratings — published 1994 3 editions |
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Female of the Species (Contemporary American Fiction) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1988 2 editions |
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Checker and the Derailleurs (Contemporary American Fiction) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1989 2 editions |
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The Post-birthday World (Paperback) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Bleeding Heart (Hardcover) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 3.00 — 1 ratings — published 1990 |
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The Female of the Species: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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quotes by Lionel Shriver
"Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches."
— Lionel Shriver
— Lionel Shriver
"...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good."
— Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel)
— Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel)
"You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously."
— Lionel Shriver
— Lionel Shriver
