Big Brother
A Novel
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Big Brother
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Narrateur(s):
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Alice Rosengard
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Auteur(s):
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Lionel Shriver
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Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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 delivers his wife an ultimatum: It’s him or me.
Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: an issue both social and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much sacrifice we'll make to save single members of our families, and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.
The novel..I can only assume that Lionel shrivel was horribly emotionally scarred by an obese person at some point in time. How else can you explain such obtuse, idiotic and sophomoric writing about this subject?
He uses every opportunity to degrade fat people, even if it makes no sense or does not have a place in the story. If Edison touches someone, his fingers must have food on them + god forbid that they are clean like a “normal” person’s hands. If Edison moves, we’ll, there has to be an embarrassing incident to go along with that. And, of course, Edison is portrayed as being sloppy, slovenly, lazy, etc.. Basically, look for every negative stereotype you have ever heard about fat people and you will find it in this book.
This novel is a waste of time and money and contributions nothing. What’s sad is people will become incensed reading a novel about child abuse, racism and so on, but no one calls out authors like this.
Obviously a fat person hater
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