The mandibles

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Sinopse

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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Autor: Lionel Shriver

Autor

LIONEL SHRIVER

Lionel Shriver nasceu Margaret Ann Shriver (1957, Carolina do Norte, Estados Unidos) e aos 15 anos mudou de nome. Formada e pós-graduada pela Universidade de Columbia e pelo Barnard College, nos Estados Unidos, viveu em Nairóbi (Quênia), Bangkok (Tailândia) e Belfast (Irlanda). Precisamos falar sobre o Kevin, seu oitavo romance, foi recusado por agentes literários e mais de 30 editoras, mas em 2005 ganhou o prêmio Orange, na Grã-Bretanha. Publicou ainda The female of the species, Checker and the Derailleurs, Ordinary decent criminals, Game control, A perfectly good family e O mundo pós-aniversário. Seu mais recente livro, So much for that, foi lançado em março deste ano. Vive em Londres e contribui para os jornais The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times e para o semanário Economist.

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