An edition of Post-Birthday World (2003)

The post-birthday world

1st Harperluxe ed.
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An edition of Post-Birthday World (2003)

The post-birthday world

1st Harperluxe ed.
  • 4.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 3 Want to read
  • 3 Have read

In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.

Children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid. Until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton. The decision to give in to temptation will have consequences for her career, her relationships with family and friends, and perhaps most importantly the texture of her daily life.

Hinging on a single kiss, this enchanting work of fiction depicts Irina's alternating futures with two men temperamentally worlds apart yet equally honorable. With which true love Irina is better off is neither obvious nor easy to determine, but Shriver's exploration of the two destinies is memorable and gripping. Poignant and deeply honest, written with the subtlety and wit that are the hallmarks of Shriver's work, The Post-Birthday World appeals to the what-if in us all.

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Harperluxe
Language
English
Pages
875

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Cover of: The Post-Birthday World
The Post-Birthday World
2008, HarperCollins
eBook in English
Cover of: The Post-Birthday World
The Post-Birthday World
2008, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English - 1st Harper Perennial ed. (3)
Cover of: The Post-Birthday World
The Post-Birthday World
2007, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: The post-birthday world
The post-birthday world
2007, Harperluxe
in English - 1st Harperluxe ed.
Cover of: The Post-Birthday World
The Post-Birthday World
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
Hardcover in English - 1st ed. (1)
Cover of: El mundo después del cumpleaños
El mundo después del cumpleaños
2003, Editorial Anagrama, S.A., Editorial Anagrama
Paperback in Spanish

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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3569.H742 P67 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
875 p. (large print) ;
Number of pages
875

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23108416M
ISBN 10
0061233099
ISBN 13
9780061233098
Library Thing
1743533
Goodreads
288631

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What began as coincidence had crystallised into tradition: on the sixth of July, they would have dinner with Ramsey Acton on his birthday.
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