{"id":6048,"date":"2021-07-15T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=6048\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:18:05","slug":"stay-go-lionel-shriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2021\/07\/15\/stay-go-lionel-shriver\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO&#8221; by Lionel Shriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Should-we-stay-or-should-we-go.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Should-we-stay-or-should-we-go-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Should-we-stay-or-should-we-go-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Should-we-stay-or-should-we-go.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Lionel Shriver is my favorite writer by far.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe subject of her latest book was extremely interesting to me because my husband and I are at the same age as the main characters from the novel. Therefore some of their concerns are also ours.<\/p>\n<p>The main characters of the book, British citizens Cyril and Kay (fifty years old), decide to kill themselves on their eightieth anniversary.<br \/>\nThe decision is not taken lightly : Kay is fed up after taking care for fifteen years of her Alzheimer&#8217;s diseased dad, and the couple decides do not be the same burden for their three adults children.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the beauty of this book is how Lionel imagined the END: there are multiple choices!!!<br \/>\nOne of them is the situation where, FINALLY \ud83d\ude42 , the pill for eternal youth is produced:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;According to the rumour, which the subsequent longevity of a certain someone bore out, one of the first beneficiaries of the new restorative was the UK&#8217;s official head of state, who, it was said, began discreetly popping the pills along with her nightly G&amp;T whilst the drug trial, showing such early promise, was still underway.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Consequently, the poor, inhumanly patient Charles, Prince of Wales, was unlikely ever to ascend to the throne after all; when the secret finally leaked, the Princess-Consort-in-waiting Camilla Parker-Bowles was livid.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The country at large, however, was delighted. 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