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001 2009455095
003 DLC
005 20090814090417.0
008 090603r20071994nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2009455095
020 $a9780061239502 (pbk.)
020 $a006123950X (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $af-ke---
050 00 $aPS3569.H742$bG36 2007
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aShriver, Lionel.
245 10 $aGame control /$cLionel Shriver.
250 $a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper Perennial,$c2007.
300 $a277, 20 ;$c21 cm.
500 $aReprint with new "P.S. insights, interviews & more" section. Previously published: London : Faber and Faber, 1994.
520 $a"Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition. Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa-- a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort-- Lionel Shriver's Game Control is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people"--P. [4] of cover.
651 0 $aKenya$vFiction.
650 0 $aBirth control clinics$xEmployees$vFiction.
650 0 $aAmericans$zKenya$vFiction.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0912/2009455095-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0912/2009455095-d.html