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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel (P.S.)

By Lionel Shriver

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0061239496, 9780061239496, 9780061461521
Open Library ID
OL24271050M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
815 kB (834101 bytes)
Pages
304\311
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.

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