{"product_id":"game-control-a-novel-isbn-9780061239502","title":"Game Control: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africa—a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel Shriver's \u003cem\u003eGame Control \u003c\/em\u003eis a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleanor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would \"save\" humanity but who don't like people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eEleanor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa—a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel Shriver's \u003cem\u003eGame Control\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“One of the best works of fiction about Africa I’ve ever read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lionel Shriver has written a sardonic, sexy, salutary novel about, of all things, population control.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGame Control\u003c\/em\u003e mixes dark comedy, intellectual sparring, doomsday thrills and psychological scrutiny in a bold and bracing cocktail...One of the delights of “Game Control” is its deft way with genre conventions. Behind the zippy demographic debate lurks a wry take on that old Mills \u0026amp; Boon standby: doormat nurse meets dashing doc.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shriver steers her plot through some truly outrageous argument. But her work is all the more valuable for its flagrant defiance of political correctness...the controversy that consumes [the story] is compelling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every now and then a modern novel about Africa comes along that neither trades on the continent as ‘exotica’ nor piously makes literary capital out of human misery—that doesn’t go woozy at the sight of a wildebeest, that might be more cruel than caring, but in fact isn’t. John Updike’s \u003cem\u003eThe Coup\u003c\/em\u003e was one such, as was Paul Theroux’s\u003cem\u003e Jungle Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e; Lionel Shriver, an American woman already praised for \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Decent Criminals\u003c\/em\u003e, has produced another.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887774757093,"sku":"NP9780061239502","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061239502.jpg?v=1730227439","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/game-control-a-novel-isbn-9780061239502","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}