Big Brother
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Inspirada en la experiencia autobiográfica de la autora, cuyo hermano mayor padeció una obesidad que le provocó un fatal ataque al corazón, esta novela es una sátira feroz de las «familias felices» y de una sociedad desquiciada, que se obsesiona con el culto al cuerpo y al mismo tiempo publicita y consume toneladas de comida basura. Pero es también una indagación en las complicadas relaciones entre hermanos, en el complejo de culpa y la necesidad de redención, en la lucha por salvar de la autodestrucción a las personas a las que queremos y a nosotros mismos. «Su mejor novela hasta el momento... Preparaos para algunos episodios brutalmente viscerales. Pero ¿quién podía pensar que una novela sobre la dieta podía ser tan conmovedora y desbordante de suspense?» (Amanda Craig, The Independent).
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Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin) returns to the family in this intelligent meditation on food, guilt, and the real (and imagined) debts we owe the ones we love. Ex-caterer Pandora has made it big with a custom doll company that creates personal likenesses with pull-string, sometimes crude, catch phrases. The dolls speak to the condition of these characters all trapped in destructive relationships with food (and each other): Pandora cooks to show love, to the delight of her compulsively fit husband Fletcher, whose refusal to eat dairy or vary from his biking routine are the outward manifestation of his remove. Pandora's brother Edison eats to ease the pain of a stalled music career and broken marriage. And both live somewhat uncomfortably in the shadow of their father's TV fame. In Big Brother, nothing reveals character more scathingly than food. Early in the book, the nearly 400-pound Edison arrives waddling through an Iowa airport with a "ground eating galumph" a man transformed in the four years since his sister last saw him. He brings the novel energy as well as an occasionally unpalatable maudlin drama. But Pandora will risk everything, including her own health, to save him. If this devotion and Pandora's increasing success with Edison's diet plan sometimes seem chirpily false, a late reveal provides devastating justification.
