The New Republic - Kindle edition by Shriver, Lionel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The New Republic. The New Republic. by. Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corporate lawyer, he's more than ready to leave his lucrative career for 3/5(). The New Republic is satire of a Shriver kind, that is to say biting.” (Miami Herald) “Lionel Shriver, the author of the harrowing and patient We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers something altogether different: a callous and romping political and journalistic satire.”/5(82).
A droll, playful novel, The New Republic addresses weighty issues like terrorism with the deft, tongue-in-cheek touch that is vintage Shriver. It also presses the more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug? Wisecracking and whip-smart, Lionel Shriver's The New Republic is a rollicking ride of a read. Though it was completed in , it wasn't published until after Shriver achieved international success with We Need to Talk About Kevin, for me a 5-star read. The New Republic is satire of a Shriver kind, that is to say biting." -- Miami Herald "Lionel Shriver, the author of the harrowing and patient We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers something altogether different: a callous and romping political and journalistic satire.".
Lionel Shriver is not the first novelist to tackle this weighty subject, 2 but her latest book, (She’d written The New Republic 14 years earlier but had trouble getting it published.) But. Lionel Shriver's new novel, called The New Republic, is actually an old manuscript with a star-crossed history. As Shriver explains in a prefatory note, this satire on (among other things. Published in , The New Republic was completed in between Shriver's Double Fault and We Need to Talk About Kevin. While it does deal with the weighty issue of terrorism, it is probably the most comedic and witty of her novels. She is very respectful of the terrorism issue but she has a lot of fun with her characters.
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