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...With something there for both sides, it was an elegant resolution to a debate that has exercised bookish types since novelist Lionel Shriver made a speech on the subject last month — and a diplomatic one...
...Fellow novelist Lionel Shriver wrote in the FT : “I hate to say this, because my hopes were high, but this novel becomes well and truly dull....
...Lionel Shriver is author of ‘The New Republic’ (HarperCollins)...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...That’s the starting point for Shriver’s sharp novel, as Pandora’s obese brother comes to stay and so wrecks her tidy life....
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