Lionel Shriver
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Born
in Gastonia, North Carolina, The United States
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
59 editions
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2003
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The Post-Birthday World
55 editions
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2007
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Big Brother
37 editions
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2013
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So Much for That
49 editions
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2010
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
30 editions
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2016
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Double Fault
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1997
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A Perfectly Good Family
24 editions
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2007
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The New Republic
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2012
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Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
14 editions
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2018
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The Standing Chandelier: A Novella
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"Greed is good—and bad—in these picks from the author of the near-futuristic family saga The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047." ...More
"Greed is good—and bad—in these picks from the author of the near-futuristic family saga The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047." ...More
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“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Checker and the Derailleurs
― Checker and the Derailleurs
“...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.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
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