About the Book

Can the course of life hinge on a single kiss? Whether American expatriate Irina McGovern does or doesn’t lean into a certain pair of lips in London will determine if she stays with her smart, disciplined, intellectual American partner, Lawrence, or runs off with Ramsey—a wild, exuberant British snooker star she and her husband have known for years.
    In The Post-Birthday World, international bestselling author Lionel Shriver uses a parallel-universe structure to examine the implications—large and small—of whom we choose to love. As Irina’s two departing futures unfold, Shriver pits one flawed-but decent man against another with all the subtlety, perceptiveness and drama that made her last novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, the winner of the 2005 Orange Prize.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9781554681693
• ISBN 10: 1554681693
• Imprint: Harper Perennial
• On Sale: 02/26/2008
• Pages: 544
• List Price:18.95 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary

Lionel Shriver

Biography

Lionel Shriver’s novels include Sunday Times bestsellers Big Brother and The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and The Orange Prize-winning international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn.

Other Works by Lionel Shriver

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  The Motion of the Body Through Space

  By Lionel Shriver

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  Property

  By Lionel Shriver

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  The Mandibles

  By Lionel Shriver