Ordinary Decent Criminals
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Lionel Shriver. Ordinary Decent Criminals
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Praise for Ordinary Decent Criminals:
Dedication
chapter one. Hot Black Bush
chapter two. Roisin Has Enthusiasms
chapter three. The Green Door, or Everybody Likes Lancaster
chapter four. Women on and off the Wall
chapter five. Cape Canaveral on York Street
chapter six. Roisin’s Furniture Goes Funny
chapter seven. Constance Has Inner Beauty; About Farrell We Are Not So Sure
chapter eight. Big Presents Come in Small Packages
chapter nine. As You Are in Pieces, So Shall Your Cities Fragment
chapter ten. The Vector and the Corkscrew
chapter eleven. The MacBride Principles
chapter twelve. Americans Have Good Teeth
chapter thirteen. Checked Luggage, or The Long Fuck
chapter fourteen. Negaphobia, and Why Farrell Doesn’t Do Windows
chapter fifteen. Ireland, and Other Hospitals
chapter sixteen. The House in Castlecaulfield
chapter seventeen. The Fall of the House in Castlecaulfield
chapter eighteen. Form over Weight
chapter nineteen. Notice-Notice
chapter twenty. Harder-Harder, More-More, Worse-Worse: Estrin Turns into a Lamppost
chapter twenty-one. Chemical Irritation
chapter twenty-two. The Saint of Glengormley
chapter twenty-three. What Is So Bloodcurdling about a Swallow in Your Kitchen?
epilogue: Boredom as Moral Achievement
glossary of troublesome terms
about the book. Teatime in London: Why I Spurn My Gerry Adams Mugs for the Cups From the John Harvard Library
About the Author
ALSO BY LIONEL SHRIVER
About the Publisher
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‘Lionel Shriver is an original, by turns exuberantly comic, whimsical and cruel … The men – performers, compulsive talkers whose insistent self-revelation masks their emptiness – are wonderfully captured. This is a love story, and a surprisingly moving one. But Shriver’s edgy, accurate wit, her ear for rhetorical inflation and self-deception, and her refusal to be conned by personal or political platitudes expand her novel: its real subject is the seductiveness and sadness of Belfast itself’ Independent on Sunday
‘Shriver has obviously immersed herself deeply in Belfast life at the cellar-bar level … That Shriver is an uncommonly gifted writer is obvious even in the early pages. This is an unusual and impressive achievement’ Spectator
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“Never will forget that first game,” MacBride nosed in again. “This sorry scarecrow teetering to the board. I shook his hand and nearly crushed it—a sickly sort, this one. But ten moves later, who’d have guessed he had it in him? Loopy, I thought, the boy’s in a fever!”
“But I won.” Farrell poked MacBride’s chest in a gesture he realized too late was exactly like his own father’s.
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