So Much for That

By Lionel Shriver
(Harper, Hardcover, 9780061458583, 448pp.)

Publication Date: February 17, 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Large Print (March 2010)

Categories: General

Lionel Shriver's novels include The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and A Perfectly Good Family. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.

"A risk taker with a protean imagination, Shriver (The Post-Birthday World) has produced another dazzling, provocative novel, a witty and timely exploration of the failure of our health-care system. . . . Shriver twists the plot to raise suspense until the heart-lifting denouement."
-Publishers Weekly

"Exceptionally timely . . . Exposing the many deficiencies in the American health-care system . . . Shriver perceptively dissects every facet of Glynis' illness . . . immersing the reader in how this family deals with terminal disease, and its rippling effects."
-Deborah Donovan, Booklist