Bibliograph

A perfectly good family, Lionel Shriver

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A perfectly good family, Lionel Shriver

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A perfectly good family

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lionel Shriver

Summary

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not

Target audience

adult

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