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"After his wife is diagnosed with cancer, Shep Knacker sees his dream of retiring to a developing country slip away, along with all the money in his once-plentiful bank account, as he tries to navigate America's labyrinthine health-care system."@en
"After his wife is diagnosed with cancer, Shep Knacker sees his dream of retiring to a developing country slip away, along with all the money in his once-plentiful bank account, as he tries to navigate America's labyrinthine health-care system."
"From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness. 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 home repair business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, 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. Enriched with three medical subplots that also explore the human costs of American health care, So Much for That follows the profound transformation of a marriage, for which grave illness proves an unexpected opportunity for tenderness, renewed intimacy, and dry humor. In defiance of her dark subject matter, Shriver writes a page-turner that presses the question: How much is one life worth'"@en
"Shep Knacker is bored with his humdrum existence. He's sold his successful handyman business for a million dollars and is now ready to embark on his 'afterlife' - a one-way ticket to a small island off the coast of Africa. But the day he announces he is leaving, his wife informs him that she is gravely ill."
"Shep Knacker finally sells his home repair business for a cool million dollars and his dream of sunlit, balmy living finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, never finds the right time to go. Shep announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her. After having returned from a doctor's appointment, Glynis desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep's nest egg for his "retirement" soon cracks under the strain."
"Shep Knacker finally sells his home repair business for a cool million dollars and his dream of sunlit, balmy living finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, never finds the right time to go. Shep announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her. After having returned from a doctor's appointment, Glynis desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep's nest egg for his "retirement" soon cracks under the strain."@en
"New York, 2005. Shepp caresse enfin son rêve de partir vivre avec sa femme et son fils sur une île près de Zanzibar lorsque Glynis, son épouse, lui annonce qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer rare. Le rêve de Shepp s'efface à mesure que fondent les économies pour payer le traitement de Glynis, jusqu'au jour où il en a assez... Un tableau effrayant et précis du système de santé aux États-Unis.--[Memento]."
"All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in the Third World. Yet he comes to realise that his wife, Glynis, has never been serious about maing the change. On the very day he announces he is leaving for the island of Pemba with or without her, she informs him that she is gravely ill. So he can't leave. If nothing else, Glynis needs his health insurance. But despite their having coverage, the astronomically expensive treatments deplete Shep's nest egg, and this once well-off small businessman hurtles toward bankruptcy. How much money is one human life worth?"
"Novel about the effect of illness on human relationships."
""A novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the cost of medical care in modern America"--Provided by publisher."@en
""A novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the cost of medical care in modern America"--Provided by publisher."
"The extraordinary new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'."@en
"A crumbling marriage is resurrected in the face of illness, and a family struggles to come to terms with disease, dying, and the cost of medical care in modern America."@en
""A novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the cost of medical care in modern America""
"GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. AUSTRALIAN. All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in the Third World. Yet he comes to realise that his wife, Glynis, has never been serious about making the change. On the very day that he announces he is leaving for the island of Pemba with or without her, she informs him that she is gravely ill. So he can't leave. If nothing else, Glynis needs his health insurance. But despite their having insurance coverage, the co-payments required for her astronomically expensive treatments systematically deplete Shep's nest egg, and this once well-off small businessman hurtles toward bankruptcy. Lionel Shriver's brilliant and affecting new novel takes a hard look at America's health-care system and asks the uncomfortable question: how much money is one human life worth? 'an extraordinary writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH."
"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 home repair business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go."@en

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"Psychological fiction"
"Psychological fiction"@en
"Popular literature"
"Large type books"
"Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
"Nook books"@en
"Electronic books"@en
"Fiction"@he
"American fiction"@he
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Translations"@he
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
"Domestic fiction"
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Romans (teksten)"

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"Tout ça pour quoi"
"Dat was het dan"
"ʻAd kan"
"So much for that : a novel"@en
"So much for that : a novel"
"Dieses Leben, das wir haben Roman"
"Tout ça pour quoi : roman"
"Tutta un'altra vita"
"Tutta un'altra vita"@it
"So much for that a novel"
"So much for that a novel"@en
"So much for that"@en
"So much for that"
"Arketa hō edō"
"עד כאן"
"Todo esto para qué"
"Todo esto para qué"@es
"<&gt"@he
"Dieses Leben, das wir haben : Roman"
"SO MUCH FOR THAT"

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