The Female of the Species

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Female of the Species
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lionel Shriver
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:512
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780007564019
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint The Borough Press
Publication Date 12 February 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence.

Author Biography

Lionel Shriver's novels include the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

'Terrific - a provocative tale of devotion, suffering, and other familiar accoutrements of love' PEOPLE Praise for Lionel Shriver: 'One of the most magnetically compelling writers working today. Witty, caustic and worldly' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'A brilliant writer. She has a strong, clear and strangely seductive voice. The characters are strong . . . so moving it will make you want to gasp or cry' SUNDAY TIMES 'Shriver is an incisive social satirist with a clear grip on the ironies of our contemporary age' LA Times