Mania

Resumen del libro

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely ... I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold' JOHN CLEESE 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Lionel Shriver x{0026}lt;/strong (Gastonia, Carolina del Norte, 1957) es periodista y escritora. En 2005, con varias novelas en su haber, recibió el prestigioso Women's Prize for Fiction por x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tenemos que hablar de Kevinx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , un superventas que la consagró definitivamente en el panorama literario internacional: Pocas veces un libro ha explorado con tal sutileza y complejidad esa tenebrosa sustancia que une a una madre y a su hijo (Véronique Rossignol, x{0026}lt;em Livres Hebdox{0026}lt;/em ). Además de esta, Anagrama ha publicado sus siguientes novelas: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El mundo despuésx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em del cumpleañosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Compleja y atrevida, la inteligente meditación de Shriver fascinará a cualquiera que se haya preguntado alguna vez qué habría pasado si hubiera seguido, o ignorado, uno de esos impulsos que cambian la vida (Francine Prose, x{0026}lt;em Peoplex{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Todo esto para quéx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Lionel Shriver no escribe, construye bombas (Laura Fernández, x{0026}lt;em El Mundox{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Big Brotherx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : La lucidez de Lionel Shriver nos da siempre un merecido y a ratos hilarante bofetón. Nos mantiene despiertos (Marta Sanz, x{0026}lt;em El Confidencialx{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Los Mandiblex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : La autoconsciente brillantez de sus diálogos y el satírico aliento de su prosa se conjuran, como en las mejores novelas de Jonathan Franzen o Jeffrey Eugenides, a favor de sus personajes, que siempre resultan cercanos (Sergi Sánchez, x{0026}lt;em El Periódicox{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Propiedadx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em privadax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Shriver en la cúspide de su talento (x{0026}lt;em Financialx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;em Timesx{0026}lt;/em ), y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El movimiento del cuerpo a través delx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em espaciox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Un bilioso retrato de los adictos al fitnessx{0026} x02026; Pocos autores pueden ser tan entretenidamente problemáticos como Shriver (Alfred Hickling, x{0026}lt;em The Guardianx{0026}lt;/em ).x{0026}lt;/p