A Perfectly Good Family

Lionel Shriver

A Perfectly Good Family
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Country
Australia
Published
1 July 2008
Pages
304
ISBN
9780732288013

A Perfectly Good Family

Lionel Shriver

Classic Lionel Shriver …
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family’s grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into ‘his’ house as well, it’s war.Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A PERFECtLY GOOD FAMILY is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.‘Shriver sets up and controls this tense triumvirate with admirable precision and a keen understanding of the hastily formed alliances and subtly accorded trade-offs involved in family exchanges’ tHE GUARDIAN'Often funny and always intelligent … shot through with sardonic wit and black comedy’ tHE INDEPENDENt

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