Big brother
By: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780007271092
Subjects: Roman; Families; Brothers and sisters; Obesity; Amerikanisches Englisch; Fiction
Description: When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognise him. Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet and know-it-all monologues drive her health-and-fitness freak husband Fletcher insane. Fletcher eventually delivers his wife an ultimatum - it's him or me. Putting her marriage and two adoptive children on the line, Pandora chooses her brother - who, without her support in losing weight, will surely eat himself into an early grave.