(H/B) THE NEW REPUBLIC

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A scalpel-sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled corporate lawyer, he's more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a home-grown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate. Infuriatingly, all his fellow journalists cannot stop talking about their beloved "Bear", who is no longer lighting up their work lives.
Yet all is not as it appears. Os Soldados Ousados De Barba - "The Daring Soldiers of Barba" - have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn't give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do terrorist incidents claimed by the "SOB" suddenly dry up?
A droll, playful novel, The New Republic addresses weighty issues like terrorism with the deft, tongue-in-cheek touch that is vintage Shriver. It also presses the more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug? What's their secret? And in the end, who has the better life - the admired, or the admirer? (From the publisher)

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Honorable Mention
Saddling Up
Long Time, No See
Inversion 101
Security Theater
Only Edgar
Edgar Meets His New Little Friends
Ninety-Nine Push-Ups and Cloudberry Shampoo
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The Empty Wingchair
The Celery Wars
Edgar Meets Baby Serious and Debuts at the Barking Rat
A Brief Apprenticeship as an Ignorant Dipshit
No Trace Found of Reporter in Terrorist Stronghold
Any Slob Can Buy Shit
A Whijf of the Old Bastard Himself
Playing Hard to Get with a British Accent
Couscous and Balaclava
Saab Stories
Edgar Earns His Savvy
One Less Ugly Landmark
Taken for SAPSS
Impostor Syndrome
Barba Is No Longer Boring
Portugal Denies Immigration Overhaul Is SOB Appeasement
Every Former Fat Boy's Dream
Friend of the Fucking Family
Harrington Has Feelings
Stealing Shit from Shitheads
Supporting the Peace Process
The Tooth Fairy Gives an Interview
Renowned International Terrorist Brakes for Pussycat
Little Jack Coroner Sits on a Foreigner
The Tooth Fairy Leaves Behind a Bigger Surprise than a Quarter
Bubbardizing Humberto
Barringtonizing the Barking Rat
The Curse of Interesting Times
Inversion 102
Altavista Epilogue
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author