The new republic

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Sinopse

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 the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate. Infuriatingly, all his fellow journalists cannot stop talking about their beloved "Bear," who is no longer lighting up their work lives.Yet all is not as it appears. Os Soldados Ousados de Barba—"The Daring Soldiers of Barba"—have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for a province so dismal, backward, and windblown that you couldn't give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do terrorist incidents claimed by the "SOB" suddenly dry up?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? What's their secret? And in the end, who has the better life—the admired, or the admirer?

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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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