The Resource Should we stay or should we go : a novel, Lionel Shriver
Should we stay or should we go : a novel, Lionel Shriver
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The item Should we stay or should we go : a novel, Lionel Shriver represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
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The item Should we stay or should we go : a novel, Lionel Shriver represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- When her father, who had been ravaged by Alzheimer's for ten years, dies, Kay and her husband, Cyril, determined to one day die with dignity, take control of their final years by making a pact to exit the world together at the age of eighty
- Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn eighty.... -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063094246
- Label
- Should we stay or should we go : a novel
- Title
- Should we stay or should we go
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lionel Shriver
- Subject
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- trueDeath of parents
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Older people -- Fiction
- trueOptions, alternatives, choices
- Parents -- Death
- trueSuicide pacts
- Suicide pacts -- Fiction
- trueAging
- trueBrexit, 2016-2020
- trueCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-
- trueCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueDeath control
- trueGreat Britain
- trueHusband and wife
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- When her father, who had been ravaged by Alzheimer's for ten years, dies, Kay and her husband, Cyril, determined to one day die with dignity, take control of their final years by making a pact to exit the world together at the age of eighty
- Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn eighty.... -- adapted from jacket
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- 10958150
- Cataloging source
- YDX
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- Shriver, Lionel
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
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- Married people
- Older people
- Suicide pacts
- Choice (Psychology)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Should we stay or should we go : a novel, Lionel Shriver
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063094246
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1200307256
- (OCoLC)1200307256
- Label
- Should we stay or should we go : a novel, Lionel Shriver
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063094246
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1200307256
- (OCoLC)1200307256
Subject
- trueDeath of parents
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Older people -- Fiction
- trueOptions, alternatives, choices
- Parents -- Death
- trueSuicide pacts
- Suicide pacts -- Fiction
- trueAging
- trueBrexit, 2016-2020
- trueCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-
- trueCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueDeath control
- trueGreat Britain
- trueHusband and wife
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
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