The post-birthday world : a novel
Shriver, Lionel
The post-birthday world : a novel / Lionel Shriver - First Harper Perennial Edition - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , c2007 - 517 p. ; 21 cm.
Using a playful parallel - universe structure, "The Post-Birthday World" follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men. Children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid. Until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton. The decision to give in to temptation will have consequences for her career, her relationships with family and friends, and perhaps most importantly the texture of her daily life. Hinging on a single kiss, this enchanting work of fiction depicts Irina's alternating futures with two men temperamentally worlds apart yet equally honorable. With which true love Irina is better off is neither obvious nor easy to determine, but Shriver's exploration of the two destinies is memorable and gripping.
9780061187896
2006049233
Women illustrators----Fiction
Snooker players----Fiction
Americans----England----London----Fiction
Male selection----Fiction
Married people----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3569.H742 / P67 2007
FIC SHR
The post-birthday world : a novel / Lionel Shriver - First Harper Perennial Edition - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , c2007 - 517 p. ; 21 cm.
Using a playful parallel - universe structure, "The Post-Birthday World" follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men. Children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid. Until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton. The decision to give in to temptation will have consequences for her career, her relationships with family and friends, and perhaps most importantly the texture of her daily life. Hinging on a single kiss, this enchanting work of fiction depicts Irina's alternating futures with two men temperamentally worlds apart yet equally honorable. With which true love Irina is better off is neither obvious nor easy to determine, but Shriver's exploration of the two destinies is memorable and gripping.
9780061187896
2006049233
Women illustrators----Fiction
Snooker players----Fiction
Americans----England----London----Fiction
Male selection----Fiction
Married people----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3569.H742 / P67 2007
FIC SHR
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