Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances.
So Much for That
โ Scribed by Lionel Shriver
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 312 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters... A highly engrossing novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle
From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the obscene cost of medical care in modern America.
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