Big Brother
A Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary book. Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't. Lionel Shriver, Big Brother //
For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the “toxic” dishes that he’d savored through their courtship, and spends hours each day to manic cycling. Then, when Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she doesn’t recognize him. In the years since they’ve seen one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher...
Download or read Big Brother in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Big Brother.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9780062199263 / 62199269
SkmvvlCoOW.pdf
More About Big Brother
I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay. Lionel Shriver, Big Brother // Even if he doesn't go to college, he could at least learn to make something. Nobody in this country knows how to sink a nail anymore. They're all dependent on the tradesmen their kids are taught not to become. Lionel Shriver, Big Brother // It wasn't that eating was so great--it wasn't--but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay. Lionel Shriver, Big Brother //
This book disappointed me in so many ways. Pandora, the narrator, marries Fletcher a man who just happens to be an extreme health nut. Enter her brother, Edison, who has recently gained hundreds of pounds and will eat anything that doesn't run away from his fat fingered grasp. (Do you have to paint such broad strokes, Lionel?) The plot... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. For the past several days I have recommended this book to family and friends, even though it contains a totally unrealistic description of how much heavy people eat, and how they eat it, and a dangerous selection of fad crash diet. I felt that the introspection... This is the first book I have read by Lionel Shriver. I started reading it with huge expectations based on rave reviews of this and earlier works. Perhaps that set me up to be disappointed. The main protagonist and narrator of Big Brother is Pandora, a name that means, "gifted," and/or "the all-giving." (See Wikipedia). The novel is...
