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LIONEL SHRIVER - GEBRAUCHT THE MANDIBLES A FAMI...

'Shriver's intelligence  mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make
this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES  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.  This is not science fiction. This is a frightening 
fascinating  scabrously funny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too
soon  from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive and topical author of our times.

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