LSE Literary Festival event
Date: Saturday 13 February 2010
Time: 4.30-6pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver will be discussing and reading from her new novel So Much for That on the cusp of release in March. Described in HarperCollins's spring catalogue as "about illness, death, and money", Shriver's latest explores four different scenarios with a medical aspect, in a kind of literary "ER". The book examines the catastrophic personal fall-out of America's dysfunctional health-care system, while also raising tough questions that all Western countries are having to wrestle with--the most signal among them: how much money is one life worth?
Lionel Shriver is best known for the international bestsellers The Post-Birthday World (2007) and We Need to Talk About Kevin, the 2005 Orange Prize winner that has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Her work has been translated into 25 different languages. She is a widely published journalist, appearing regularly in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. Her ninth novel, So Much for That, will be released in March.
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