{"product_id":"9780007560776","title":"The Mandibles: A Family, 2029�2047","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Shriver, Lionel \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/03\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 528 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007560776,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Distinctly chilling’ Independent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Unsettling as it is entertaining’ Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘It's scaring the hell out of me’ Tracy Chevalier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In this eerily prophetic novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, a once-wealthy family faces the prospect of ruin. This apocalypse is financial – the dollar is in meltdown, America’s national debt far beyond repayment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It is 2029.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies, but now their inheritance is turned to ash. Each family member must contend with disappointment, but also — as the effects of the downturn start to hit — the challenge of sheer survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can’t buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father Carter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author, returns from abroad at 73 to a country that’s unrecognizable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Perhaps only Florence’s oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697924964396,"sku":"9780007560776","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007560776.jpg?v=1722607283","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007560776","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}