An edition of Game Control: A Novel (P.S.) (1994)

Game Control

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An edition of Game Control: A Novel (P.S.) (1994)

Game Control

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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.Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic 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. 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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The Borough Press
Pages
384

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Game Control
Feb 12, 2015, The Borough Press
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Game Control
2007, HarperCollins
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Game Control: A Novel (P.S.)
July 3, 2007, Harper Perennial
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Game Control
November 3, 1995, Faber and Faber
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Library of Congress
PS3569.H742

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paperback
Number of pages
384

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Open Library
OL31978229M
ISBN 10
0007578016
ISBN 13
9780007578016
OCLC/WorldCat
896901068

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OL3359136W

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