Game Control: A Satirical Novel of Intellectual Hypocrisy, Misanthropic Love, and Population Control in Kenya (P.S.) - Softcover

Shriver, Lionel

 
9780061239502: Game Control: A Satirical Novel of Intellectual Hypocrisy, Misanthropic Love, and Population Control in Kenya (P.S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 006123950X ISBN 13: 9780061239502
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2007

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Set against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africa—a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel Shriver's Game Control is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. 

Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.

With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.

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Lionel Shriver has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications, including Harper’s, The Times, UnHerd, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others. A multiply bestselling writer and winner of the UK’s Orange Prize, she lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

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Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.

Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa—a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel Shriver's Game Control is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
006123950X
ISBN 13 
9780061239502
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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