Game Control
eBook - ePub

Game Control

A Novel

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Game Control

A Novel

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1. The Curse of the Uninvited
  7. Chapter 2. Family Planning from the Tar Pits
  8. Chapter 3. In the Land of Shit-Fish
  9. Chapter 4. Spiritual Pygmies at the Ski Chalet
  10. Chapter 5. What Some Women Will Put Up With
  11. Chapter 6. Recipes for Romantic Evenings
  12. Chapter 7. Dog Days of Millennial Dread
  13. Chapter 8. Bitter Pills in the Love-Stone Inn
  14. Chapter 9. The Enigma Variations
  15. Chapter 10. A Drive to Bob's Save-Life Bar
  16. Chapter 11. The Battle of the Bunnies and the Rats
  17. Chapter 12. Maggots in the Breezes of Opah Sanders's Fan
  18. Chapter 13. The Diet of Worms
  19. Chapter 14. Paying the Piper
  20. Chapter 15. More Parameters
  21. Chapter 16. The IMF is OBE'ed
  22. Chapter 17. Back in the Behavioural Sink
  23. Chapter 18. An Elephant for Breakfast
  24. Chapter 19. Sprinkled with Vim and Garnished with Doom
  25. Endpapers: The Cool Rats
  26. P.S. Insights Interviews
  27. About the Author
  28. Praise
  29. Other Books by Lionel Shriver
  30. Copyright
  31. About the Publisher