Monday, October 19, 2009

Family feud ...

... Lionel Shriver: I sold my family for a novel.

I always loved it when Lionel reviewed for me. She never, ever pulled her punches. And the result could be hilarious. I think she is little hard on herself when she says that she sold her family down the river for a manuscript. You gotta do what you gotta do. And Lionel is a novelist. I also always got the impression that she really respected and cared for her parents.

2 comments:

  1. thanks! there's always common sense isn't it, when you pause and you realize what you're doing is nuts.

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  2. I fear so. Wait to you get to be my age. The sheer absurdity of my life is what I find so hard to deal with - and it is that, actually, that reminds me that I am now an old man.

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