

Game Control
Author: Lionel Shriver
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/29/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Lionel Shriver
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/29/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.
I am used to being challenged by Lionel Shriver's books: they are always full of intelligent insight and dense prose. But there is usually a compelling plot driving thing along, and in this particular novel I felt the balance between plot and analysis, however intelligent, had been tipped too far in......more
Lionel Shriver is one of my favourite authors – We Need To Talk About Kevin is one of my favourite books, and thoughts about So Much For That still linger closely months after I finished it – but sadly this is the first novel of hers that I’ve read and just didn’t like. I pondered over giving it thr......more
Eleanor Merritt is an American-born aid worker in her late 30s travelling around her part of Africa with a briefcase full of condoms and preaching birth control in a land where nobody's taking much notice. Eleanor is a woman who's easy to ignore even though she speaks Swahili and tries very hard to......more