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Barcode37821002515803
LocationMarshall District
TitleMania : a novel / Lionel Shriver.
AuthorShriver, Lionel, author.
Call NoFIC SHR
CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063345393
International Standard Book Number 0063345390
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.54
Personal Name Shriver, Lionel, author.
Title Statement Mania : a novel / Lionel Shriver.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024
Physical Description 277 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Journalists Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Intellect Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women college teachers Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Political correctness Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Culture conflict Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Female friendship Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Campus fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Dystopian fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels