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A new edition of one of best-selling writer Lionel Shriver's early books, reissued 25 years after first publication - an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, occur turbulent Northern Ireland. For 10 years Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. In the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a tourist without a destination, an expatriate with out a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin mementos, she manages a flat, employment, and a fan rather than tarries at night first symptoms of ennui. Her latest destination is Belfast in Northern Ireland. After twenty years of ritualized assault, this city, too, is tired - a town where when yet another bomb explodes in the town center, old women blow the pull out their treacle cakes and count up their change. Here the lanky and spiteful Farrell O'Phelan, previous purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, technically Catholic but everyone's aggravation, wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every area. Farrell's affair with the curious Estrin is nonetheless a gathering of two loners; like hers, Farrell's marathoning around the earth has turned into a running in place. In deadlocked Northern Ireland, it has become harder and harder to think that anything is going on at all. A grand tragi-comedy - one of the earliest displays of the ambition and intellect that has since attained Lionel Shriver worldwide acclaim - Typical Decent Criminals is about turmoil groupies, people terrified of domesticity, who mix up anguish in their lives and their countries to avoid the greater horror of what sits closest to home.
