
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Set against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africa—a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel Shriver's Game Control is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions.
Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.
With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Chapter 1. The Curse of the Uninvited
- Chapter 2. Family Planning from the Tar Pits
- Chapter 3. In the Land of Shit-Fish
- Chapter 4. Spiritual Pygmies at the Ski Chalet
- Chapter 5. What Some Women Will Put Up With
- Chapter 6. Recipes for Romantic Evenings
- Chapter 7. Dog Days of Millennial Dread
- Chapter 8. Bitter Pills in the Love-Stone Inn
- Chapter 9. The Enigma Variations
- Chapter 10. A Drive to Bob's Save-Life Bar
- Chapter 11. The Battle of the Bunnies and the Rats
- Chapter 12. Maggots in the Breezes of Opah Sanders's Fan
- Chapter 13. The Diet of Worms
- Chapter 14. Paying the Piper
- Chapter 15. More Parameters
- Chapter 16. The IMF is OBE'ed
- Chapter 17. Back in the Behavioural Sink
- Chapter 18. An Elephant for Breakfast
- Chapter 19. Sprinkled with Vim and Garnished with Doom
- Endpapers: The Cool Rats
- P.S. Insights Interviews
- About the Author
- Praise
- Other Books by Lionel Shriver
- Copyright
- About the Publisher