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Title Statement | Big brother: a novel / Lionel Shriver. |
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Author | Shriver, Lionel |
Publication | Toronto: HarperCollins, c2013. |
Edition | 1st Canadian ed. |
Extent of Item | 373 p. |
ISBN | 1554682037 9781554682034 |
Other Number | 2427194 |
Summary | A couples comfortable, if sometimes strained, routine is changed with the arrival of Pandoras big brother, Edison, who is three times the size he was when the siblings last saw each other. He is morbidly obese. Edison interjects himself into Pandoras world and forms a bond with Pandoras stepchildren, opening doors to the past and to her parents that she would rather keep shut. Determined to keep her family together, Pandora embarks on a challenge: shell find an apartment for Edison, move in with him and support him financially, but only if he loses enough weight to resemble the person he once was. |
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By Topic | Brothers and sisters--Fiction |
Overweight persons--Fiction | |
Stepfamilies--Fiction | |
By Location | Iowa--Fiction |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |