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A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he`s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he`s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate. ˜The Daring Soldiers of Barba` have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn`t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents suddenly dry up?
A droll, playful novel, The New Republic addresses weighty issues like terrorism with the deft, tongue-in-cheek touch that is vintage Shriver. It also presses the more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug? What`s their secret? And in the end, who has the better life “ the admired, or the admirer?
ISBN 9780007525034
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Pages : 400
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