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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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About the Author

Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Timesbestseller The Post-Birthday Worldand the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780061239496
Subtitle:
A Novel
Author:
Shriver, Lionel
Author:
by Lionel Shriver
Author:
by Lionel Shriver
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Inheritance and succession
Subject:
Brothers and sisters
Subject:
North carolina
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Literature-Family Life
Copyright:
2007
Edition Description:
Trade PB
Series:
P.S.
Publication Date:
20070703
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.02x5.32x.75 in. .48 lbs.
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