title: The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.)
author:  Lionel Shriver 
description: &#8220;Original and involving...convincing and beautifully told. Highly recommended.&#8221; (Library Journal)<br /><br />&#8220;Daring [and] dazzling.&#8221; (More Magazine)<br /><br />&#8220;Hugely entertaining&#8230;tackles the dueling human needs for passion and security with fierce, witty honesty.&#8221; (Vogue)<br /><br />&#8220;Shriver writes with elegance and a loaded intensity...she is a brilliant, witty storyteller and the book is utterly compelling.&#8221; (Weekend Australian)<br /><br />&#8220;[A] tour de force in literary structure and mastery of language...engrossing.&#8221; (Sunday Telegraph (Australia))<br /><br />&#8220;Provocative...stunningly intense.&#8221; (New York Daily News)<br /><br />&#8220;Provocative&#8230;.The Post-Birthday World is&#8230;as unflinching as they come.&#8221; (New York Times)<br /><br />&#8220;...unique...&#8221; (South-East Advertiser (Australia))<br /><br />&#8220;Witty, formidably bright author&#8230;Lively parts&#8230;&#8221; (Denver Rocky Mountain News)<br /><br />&#8220;Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters and putting them in less-than-simple situations&#8230;Highly engrossing novel&#8230;&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)
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  ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  
  
  
  
  
  Robert Greene has a degree in classical studies and has been an editor at
  _Esquire_ and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los
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  Joost Elffers is the producer of Penguin Studio’s bestselling _The Secret
  Language of Birthdays, The Secret Language of Relationships,_ and of _Play
  With Your Food._ He lives in New York City.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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