Shortcuts
Top of page (Alt+0)
Page content (Alt+9)
Page menu (Alt+8)
Your browser does not support javascript, some WebOpac functionallity will not be available.
.
Default
.
PageMenu
-
Main Menu
-
Languages
English
.
Members
My Account
.
Join the Library
.
eLibrary
.
Gale Databases
.
Logout
.
Search The Catalogue
Basic Search
.
Advanced Search
.
Magazine Search
.
New Items Search
.
New Items List
.
Useful Links
Library Home Page
.
Print a Document
.
Book a Public Computer
.
Add Credit to Library Card
.
eLibrary
.
© LIBERO v6.4.1sp240206
Page content
You are here
:
Catalogue Display
Catalogue Display
Mania / Lionel Shriver.
.
Author on Wikipedia
.
.
LibraryThing
.
Browse Shelf
Catalogue Record 1247709
.
Item Information
Catalogue Record 1247709
.
Catalogue Information
Catalogue Record 1247709
.
.
Item Information
Shelf Location
Collection
Volume Ref.
Branch
Status
Due Date
AF SHRI
Adult Fiction
Bankstown
.
.
Available
.
AF SHRI
Adult Fiction
Campsie
.
.
Available
.
Reserve any copy Click Here
Catalogue Record 1247709
.
Catalogue Record 1247709 ItemInfo
.
Catalogue Record 1247709 ItemInfo
Top of page
.
Catalogue Information
Field name
Details
ISBN
9780008658687 (paperback)
9780008658670 (hardback)
Name
Shriver, Lionel
author.
Title
Mania / Lionel Shriver.
Published
London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
©2024
Description
277 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
What if calling someone stupid was illegal? In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'. Everyone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight'. Exams and grades are all discarded, and smart phones are rebranded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word and encouraged to report parents for using it. You don't need a qualification to be a doctor. Best friends since adolescence, Pearson and Emory find themselves on opposing sides of this new culture war. Radio personality Emory - who has built her career riding the tide of popular thought - makes increasingly hard-line statements while, for her part, Pearson believes the whole thing is ludicrous. As their friendship fractures, Pearson's determination to cling onto the 'old bigoted way of thinking' begins to endanger her job, her safety and even her family. Lionel Shriver turns her piercing gaze on the policing of opinion and intellect, and imagines a world in which intellectual meritocracy is heresy. Hilarious, deadpan, scathing and at times frighteningly plausible, MANIA will delight the many fans of her fiction and journalism alike.
Subjects
Women college teachers -- Fiction
Journalists -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Political correctness -- Fiction
Culture conflict -- Fiction
Intellect -- Fiction
Stupidity -- Fiction
Genre
Dystopian fiction
Campus fiction
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
Campus fiction
.
Culture conflict -- Fiction
.
Dystopian fiction
.
Friendship -- Fiction
.
Intellect -- Fiction
.
Journalists -- Fiction
.
Political correctness -- Fiction
.
Stupidity -- Fiction
.
Women college teachers -- Fiction
.
Authors:
Shriver, Lionel
.
.
Related Searches
Catalogue Record 1247709
.
Add Title to Basket
Catalogue Record 1247709
.
Catalogue Information 1247709
.
Catalogue Information 1247709
Top of page
.
Quick Search
Search for