A Perfectly Good Family

Name: A Perfectly Good Family
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Lionel Shriver
ISBN: 9781423360827

Author: Lionel Shriver

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/28/2009

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

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.

About Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver's books include The Post-Birthday World, Game Control, and the Orange Prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin. She writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Independent. She lives in London.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Amy on 2009-08-30 18:06:33

This may possibly be the worst reading of an audiobook I have ever listed to. How did this woman get this job? Or any job ever for that matter? It was very difficult to get past the horrible narration and enjoy what was in truth a good book by one of my favorite authors. Wish I would have just read this one.

Goodreads review by Karen

Lionel Shriver has been a huge discovery for me. She is a ridiculously gifted writer and I look forward to working my way through her novels. Shriver’s “A Perfectly Good Family” was as near to a perfect novel as I have ever read. It is the story of three very different siblings who inherit their fa......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

As with all the Lionel Shriver books I've read so far the characters are unlikeable, but it feels necessary. A look at the greed that takes place after someone's death. Three stars.......more

Goodreads review by Leo

Re-read: made it to the end this time! Yes I saw the ending coming but enjoyed getting there :) All clever people everywhere of the consensus that families bring out the best and worst in us, and that we're better with them than without. I begrudgingly agree ;) First read: Many of those great multi-cha......more

Goodreads review by Vonia

A Perfectly Good Family (1996) Author: Lionel Shriver Read: 6/24/19 Rating: 3.5/5 "A Perfectly Good Characters Study" My eleventh book from Lionel Shriver. If she isn't my favorite, likely one of my most read authors. One of Shriver's earlier efforts and it shows. What do I mean by that? Pretentious......more