A Perfectly Good Family

Lionel Shriver

first published 1996 HarperCollins, 2007 ebook

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis...

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Editions we hold

A perfectly good family edition · 2015 · The Borough Press · 9780007578023
A Perfectly Good Family audiobook · 2013 · Brilliance Audio · 9781480543300
A perfectly good family edition · 2009 · Harper · 277 pages · 9780007271115
A Perfectly Good Family edition · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780007301744
Perfectly Good Family edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers Australia · 9780732288013
Perfectly Good Family edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061461491
Perfectly Good Family edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061461507
A Perfectly Good Family ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061461521
Perfectly Good Family edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061461484
Perfectly Good Family edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061461477
A Perfectly Good Family paperback · 2007 · Harper Perennial · 277 pages · 9780061239496
A Perfectly Good Family paperback · 1996 · Faber and Faber · 304 pages · 9780571177370

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