Book cover for The New Republic: A Novel by Lionel Shriver

The New Republic

A Novel

Lionel Shriver
2012 Released
6-7 Hours
Hardback Unavailable
HarperISBN 9780062103345
Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver—author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture—probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of personality, explores what makes certain people so magnetic, and reveals the deep frustrations of feeling overshadowed by a life-of-the-party who may not even be present.

“Shriver is a master of the misanthrope. . . . [A] viciously smart writer.” —Time

Lionel Shriver

LIONEL SHRIVER’S novels include the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the Sunday Times bestseller The Mandibles, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, winner of the Orange Prize. A regular on multiple podcasts, she’s written fortnightly columns for the Spectator since 2017. Her journalism has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Times, UnHerd, the FT, The Free Press, Spiked Online and many other media outlets.

She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

More by Lionel Shriver

A Better Life
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Mania
The Mandibles
A Perfectly Good Family
Should We Stay or Should We Go
The Motion of the Body Through Space
The Birthday of the World
Double Fault
Abominations
So Much for That
Game Control

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