'Distinctly chilling' Independent 'Unsettling as it is entertaining' Financial Times 'It's scaring the hell out of me' Tracy Chevalier THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown ...
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'Distinctly chilling' Independent 'Unsettling as it is entertaining' Financial Times 'It's scaring the hell out of me' Tracy Chevalier THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also - as the effects of the downturn start to hit - the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father Carter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author, returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable. Perhaps only Florence's oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Acclaimed Author Lionel Shriver on the Title page. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. A Fine, as New, copy in a Fine, as New, dust jacket, a tight and clean copy which was bought new in 2016 and never read. U. K. First Edition-First Printing with a lone 1 on the Publisher's Page. Signed and dated on the Title page, by Acclaimed Author Lionel Shriver on May 7, 2016. "The Mandibles" is Acclaimed Author Lionel Shriver's thirteenth novel. This speculative fiction novel is set in the United States in 2029 during a debt crisis that results in the collapse of the country's economy and begins the rise of a supernational currency known as "bancor." led by a group of countries. The novel is divided into two parts, the first part taking place between 2029 and 2032, which establishes the strong characters of the Mandible family. The second part takes place in 2047. As Goodreads opines-"Lionel Shriver challenges us to think long and hard about the society which we live in and what, ultimately we hold most dear." Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
