Lionel Shriver: so much for that
‘A long simmering exasperation’, that’s what inspired Lionel Shriver to write a devastatingly visceral account of the American health system in her new novel. So much for that traverses more than the health system. It’s about whether life can be measured in dollar terms, our discomfort with death, the effect of serious illness on relationships, and that familiar desire we all have to escape when …
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