Buscar
Iniciar sesión
  • Página principal

  • Categorías

  • Audiolibros

  • E-books

  • Revistas

  • Para los niños

  • Listas principales

  • Ayuda

  • Descargar aplicación

  • Canjear código promocional

  • Canjear tarjeta regalo

  • Pruébalo gratis ahora
  • Iniciar sesión
  • Idioma

    • 🇪🇸 España
    • 🇧🇪 Belgique
    • 🇩🇰 Danmark
    • 🇩🇪 Deutschland
    • 🇫🇷 France
    • 🇳🇱 Nederland
    • 🇳🇴 Norge
    • 🇦🇹 Österreich
    • 🇨🇭 Schweiz
    • 🇫🇮 Suomi
    • 🇸🇪 Sverige
  1. Libros
  2. Ficción
  3. Ficción contemporánea

¡Lee y escucha gratis durante 14 días!

Cancela cuando quieras

Pruébalo gratis ahora
4.8(4)

Mania : A Novel

""A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today’s reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims . . . . The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel’s guiding concept cuts close to the bone with no anesthesia. Shriver isn’t one to tip-toe around her subjects. She still knows how to poke the bear. In this case, the bear is us.” — Boston Globe

Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author.

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 spirits 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.

With echoes of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, told in Lionel Shriver’s inimitable and iconoclastic voice, Mania is a sharp, acerbic, and ruthlessly funny book about the road to a delusional, self-destructive egalitarianism that our society is already on.

Audiolibro

  • Fecha de publicación: 9/4/2024

  • Idioma: Inglés

  • Editorial: HarperAudio

  • ISBN: 9780063345423


Autor/a:

  • Lionel Shriver

Narrador/a:

  • Abby Craden

Formato:

  • Audiolibro

Duración:

  • 9 h 22 min

Idioma:

Inglés

Categorías:

  • Ficción
  • Ficción contemporánea
  • Ciencia ficción
  • Ciencia ficción contemporánea
  • Ciencia ficción
  • Utopías y distopías

Más de Lionel Shriver

Omitir la lista
  1. We Need to Talk About Kevin movie tie-in : A Novel

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  2. Mania

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  3. Hvad med Kevin?

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobookbook
  4. Abominations : Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  5. Should We Stay or Should We Go

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  6. Should We Stay or Should We Go : A Novel

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  7. The Motion of the Body Through Space : A Novel

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  8. The Motion of the Body Through Space

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  9. Game Control

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  10. The New Republic

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook
  11. So Much for That

    Lionel Shriver

    audiobook

Otros también han leído

Omitir la lista
  1. Wellness : An epic story of a marriage from New York Times bestselling author of The Nix

    Nathan Hill

    audiobook
  2. Baumgartner

    Paul Auster

    audiobookbook
  3. The Year of the Locust : A Thriller

    Terry Hayes

    book
  4. The Year of the Locust: A Thriller

    Terry Hayes

    audiobook
  5. El misterioso caso del impostor del Titanic

    Carmen Posadas

    audiobookbook
  6. In the Blood : James Reece 5

    Jack Carr

    audiobookbook
  7. El mentalista

    Camilla Läckberg, Henrik Fexeus

    audiobookbook
  8. The Shoe on the Roof

    Will Ferguson

    audiobookbook
  9. La Bestia : Premio Planeta 2021

    Carmen Mola

    audiobookbook
  10. Fresh Complaint

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    audiobook
  11. Wish You Were Gone

    Kieran Scott

    audiobookbook
  12. Snow White

    Donald Barthelme

    book

Ayuda y soporte


Acerca de Nextory

  • Nuestra historia
  • Trabaja con nosotros
  • Prensa
  • Accesibilidad
  • Colabora con nosotros
  • Relaciones con los inversores
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explorar

  • Categorías
  • Audiolibros
  • E-books
  • Revistas
  • Para niños
  • Listas principales

Categorías populares

  • Crimen
  • Biografías y reportajes
  • Ficción
  • Romántica
  • Crecimiento personal
  • Infantil
  • Hechos reales
  • Sueño y relajación

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Política de privacidad · Términos ·
Excelente4.3 sobre 5