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Abominations : selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction / Lionel Shriver.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H742 A6 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shriver, Lionel, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--21st century.
- American essays.
- Women authors, American.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2022]
- Summary:
- A timely synthesis of Shriver's expansive work, this collection of thirty-five works curated from her many columns, features, essays, and op-eds reveals a provocative, talented writer at her most assured.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Private Sector
- Women of Letters Talk for Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, Indonesia, 2013
- "Putting Away Childish Things," Sermon in Manchester, England, 2013
- "Terminal Friendship," The Guardian, 2010
- "My Teenage Diary," The Guardian, 2015
- "The Big Story," Financial Times, 2013
- Greg Shriver's Memorial Tribute, Durham, North Carolina, 2009
- pt. II "What Did You Do in the War, Mommy?"
- "Fiction and Identity Politics," Brisbane Writers Festival Opening Address, 2016
- "Liberals Now Defy the Etymology of the Word," The New York Times, 2016
- "Writers Blocked," Prospect, 2018
- "Cruel and Unusual Punishment," Harper's Magazine, 2019
- "Lefty Lingo," Harper's Magazine, 2019
- pt. III Confessions of an Expat
- "Bye-Bye Belfast," 1997
- "No Exit," Harper's Magazine, 2019
- "Patrios," Harper's Magazine, 2019
- pt. IV Getting the Blood Running
- "Ode to the Hacker," Prospect, 2011
- "London's Unofficial Olympic Sport," The Atlantic, 2012
- "Your Gym Routine Is Worthless," Unherd.com Review-Essay on Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength, 2021
- pt. V Against the Grain
- "I Am Not a Kook," The New York Times, 2016
- "Ikea's Real Genius," The Spectator, 2018
- "Our Institutions No Longer Understand What They Are For," The Spectator, 2018
- "Dear Write Now," The Spectator, 2018
- "He, She, and It," Prospect, 2016
- "A Monumental Matter," The Spectator, 2017
- "Would You Want London to Be Overrun by Americans like Me?," The Spectator, 2021
- "The Criminalization of Making Money," New Criterion, 2010
- "Quote-Unquote," The Wall Street Journal, 2008
- "Lionel Shriver Is Grateful for Pandemic Quarantine (No She Isn't)," Los Angeles Times, 2020
- pt. VI End Papers
- "In Defense of Death," Population and Development Review, 2010
- "I Was Poor, but I Was Happy," The Guardian, 2014
- "Friendship Agonistes," Prospect, 2011
- "`I'll Never Put Up with Life in a Care Home,' and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves," The Observer, 2021
- "Just Because We've Been OK Doesn't Mean We'll Stay That Way," Ramsay Centre Virtual Address, 2020
- "Catastrophizing Is My Idea of a Good Time," The Spectator, 2018
- "The Nobody at Cannes," Standpoint, 2011
- "Semantic Drift," Harper's Magazine, 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9780063094291
- 0063094290
- OCLC:
- 1337583233
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