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The Post-Birthday World

Name: The Post-Birthday World
Author: Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

The Post-Birthday World is a novel by Lionel Shriver published in 2007, some four years after her previous novel, the award-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin.

“Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.”

Lionel Shriver book The Post-Birthday World

Source: The Post-Birthday World

“Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.”

Lionel Shriver book The Post-Birthday World

Source: The Post-Birthday World

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