So Much for That, Lionel Shriver
So Much for That, Lionel Shriver
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So Much for That

Author: Lionel Shriver

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 15 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/09/2010

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Shep Knacker has long saved for “The Afterlife”: an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with “talking, thinking, seeing, and being”—and enough sleep. When he sells his business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet his wife Glynis has concocted endless excuses why it’s never the right time to go. Weary of working as a peon for the jerk who bought his company, Shep announces he’s leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her.Just returned from a doctor’s appointment, Glynis has some news of her own: Shep can’t go anywhere because she desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep’s nest egg for The Afterlife soon cracks under the strain.So Much for That follows the profound transformation of a marriage, and Shriver delivers a compelling novel that presses the question: how much is one life worth?

About Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver's books include The Post-Birthday World, Game Control, and the Orange Prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin. She writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Independent. She lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on January 25, 2023

Lionel Shriver has written a very grown-up story that deals with serious subjects in a serious way. Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his life for what he calls the “Afterlife,” retirement to some sort of desert isle, away from the world in which he must work in order to finance his dream. But hi......more

Goodreads review by Baba on March 13, 2023

Husband and father Shepherd 'Shep' Knacker has saved his entire life for 'Afterlife' his idea of an idyllic affordable later life existence in most likely a developing country, when his wife, Glynis, is diagnosed with cancer; his best friend Jackson married to Carol, with healthy daughter Heather, a......more

Goodreads review by Kinga on June 14, 2012

Oh, how I wanted to like this book. How I wanted to like Lionel Shriver! Alas, Lionel Shriver is not a very likeable writer. "So Much For That" is about Shep who has been saving all his life so he can retire early to run away to a place where people bask in the sun and live on a dollar per day and he......more

Goodreads review by Alecia on March 23, 2010

There are parts of this book that I would actually rate no more than 2 stars. Sometimes the writing gets overwrought, awkward, and has the characters thinking or talking about the healthcare system or other issues in a preachy, pedantic way. But, in the end, the powerful writing and subject matter o......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 17, 2023

At times I loved it and laughed a lot and other times I hated it and disliked all the characters. Glad I finished it though as I liked the ending. Three stars.......more

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