![]() ![]() She succeeds by creating something that does much more than tie up plot threads and usher her characters off stage. ![]() ![]() Only a writer of Shriver's talent and courage would attempt a denoument as daring as the one that plays out over the novel's last 15 pages. Shriver consistently delivers whip-smart, often witty dialogue and pungent character insights that add powerful momentum to what, at its heart, remains a simple story. ![]() delicious, highly readable novel.(which) raises challenging questions about how much a loving person can give to another without sacrificing his or her own well-being. best work-Big Brother is her twelfth novel-presents characters so fully formed that they inhabit her ideas rather than trumpet them. Yet her main gift as a novelist is a talent for coolly nailing down uncomfortable realities. Ms Shriver offers some sage observations. has a knack for conveying subtle shifts in family dynamics. Most of all, though, there’s her glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose. Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger. As a writer, Shriver's talents are many: She's especially skilled at playing with readers' reflexes for sympathy and revulsion, never letting us get too comfortable with whatever firm understanding we think we have of a character. ![]()
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