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The New Republic
Lionel Shriver
A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk About Kevin.Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate.‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents 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?
Copyright (#ulink_d1299e70-61b2-5883-acf8-351b3dff8c34)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
The Borough Press
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012
Copyright © Lionel Shriver 2012
Lionel Shriver asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Source ISBN: 9780007459919
Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007459926
Version: 2017-05-04
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books
To Sarowitz, of course—
a solo dedication being long overdue
My experiences with journalists authorize me to recordthat a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy,opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequatelysupervised … They have huge power, and many ofthem are extremely reckless.
— CONRAD BLACK
Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
— GEORGE ORWELL
CONTENTS
Title Page (#uccd57605-3fe6-5e5c-a8ce-c6962e074632)
Copyright (#u755c779c-ab6c-5768-b26b-58c4ef319f1f)
Dedication (#uecd5e34c-d1df-5c2e-a727-168834041cca)
Epigraph (#ud95d9323-90ff-5aa0-8c91-0f0260de717d)
Map (#u523837fc-77aa-56bb-9865-d15078b53bb0)
1. Honorable Mention (#u081c0f99-a35f-5c22-9eb6-fe5a7e1290c6)
2. Saddling Up (#ua1fc3442-0dc0-54db-b660-7e26446140e6)
3. Long Time, No See (#u2f52e5df-8eec-5852-b7c9-475f416e0c93)
4. Inversion 101 (#ua48ef52f-6937-5edd-b549-5094e2e23a10)
5. Security Theater (#u823f0422-4acc-5f37-af1e-6a872ed24564)
6. Only Edgar (#uffa3365e-06f3-5a72-86ef-bb59a66bcfda)
7. Edgar Meets His New Little Friends (#u43ff3e24-0bb4-50ce-8ab8-b5dc1c2e6eb7)
8. Ninety-Nine Push-Ups and Cloudberry Shampoo (#u2fa9ee0e-4505-5dcd-9167-23c46a6e0345)
9. G;p[[u Mpmdrmdr (#u105ccaec-32c5-5aa6-8740-7a4af034303f)
10. The Empty Wingchair (#litres_trial_promo)
11. The Celery Wars (#litres_trial_promo)
12. Edgar Meets Baby Serious and Debuts at the Barking Rat (#litres_trial_promo)
13. A Brief Apprenticeship as an Ignorant Dipshit (#litres_trial_promo)
14. No Trace Found of Reporter in Terrorist Stronghold (#litres_trial_promo)
15. Any Slob Can Buy Shit (#litres_trial_promo)
16. A Whiff of the Old Bastard Himself (#litres_trial_promo)
17. Playing Hard to Get with a British Accent (#litres_trial_promo)
18. Couscous and Balaclava (#litres_trial_promo)
19. Saab Stories (#litres_trial_promo)
20. Edgar Earns His Savvy (#litres_trial_promo)
21. One Less Ugly Landmark (#litres_trial_promo)
22. Taken for SAPSS (#litres_trial_promo)
23. Impostor Syndrome (#litres_trial_promo)
24. Barba Is No Longer Boring (#litres_trial_promo)
25. Portugal Denies Immigration Overhaul Is SOB Appeasement (#litres_trial_promo)
26. Every Former Fat Boy’s Dream (#litres_trial_promo)
27. Friend of the Fucking Family (#litres_trial_promo)
28. Barrington Has Feelings (#litres_trial_promo)
29. Stealing Shit from Shitheads (#litres_trial_promo)
30. Supporting the Peace Process (#litres_trial_promo)
31. The Tooth Fairy Gives an Interview (#litres_trial_promo)
Lionel Shriver
A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk About Kevin.Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate.‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents 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?
Copyright (#ulink_d1299e70-61b2-5883-acf8-351b3dff8c34)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
The Borough Press
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012
Copyright © Lionel Shriver 2012
Lionel Shriver asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Source ISBN: 9780007459919
Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007459926
Version: 2017-05-04
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books
To Sarowitz, of course—
a solo dedication being long overdue
My experiences with journalists authorize me to recordthat a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy,opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequatelysupervised … They have huge power, and many ofthem are extremely reckless.
— CONRAD BLACK
Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
— GEORGE ORWELL
CONTENTS
Title Page (#uccd57605-3fe6-5e5c-a8ce-c6962e074632)
Copyright (#u755c779c-ab6c-5768-b26b-58c4ef319f1f)
Dedication (#uecd5e34c-d1df-5c2e-a727-168834041cca)
Epigraph (#ud95d9323-90ff-5aa0-8c91-0f0260de717d)
Map (#u523837fc-77aa-56bb-9865-d15078b53bb0)
1. Honorable Mention (#u081c0f99-a35f-5c22-9eb6-fe5a7e1290c6)
2. Saddling Up (#ua1fc3442-0dc0-54db-b660-7e26446140e6)
3. Long Time, No See (#u2f52e5df-8eec-5852-b7c9-475f416e0c93)
4. Inversion 101 (#ua48ef52f-6937-5edd-b549-5094e2e23a10)
5. Security Theater (#u823f0422-4acc-5f37-af1e-6a872ed24564)
6. Only Edgar (#uffa3365e-06f3-5a72-86ef-bb59a66bcfda)
7. Edgar Meets His New Little Friends (#u43ff3e24-0bb4-50ce-8ab8-b5dc1c2e6eb7)
8. Ninety-Nine Push-Ups and Cloudberry Shampoo (#u2fa9ee0e-4505-5dcd-9167-23c46a6e0345)
9. G;p[[u Mpmdrmdr (#u105ccaec-32c5-5aa6-8740-7a4af034303f)
10. The Empty Wingchair (#litres_trial_promo)
11. The Celery Wars (#litres_trial_promo)
12. Edgar Meets Baby Serious and Debuts at the Barking Rat (#litres_trial_promo)
13. A Brief Apprenticeship as an Ignorant Dipshit (#litres_trial_promo)
14. No Trace Found of Reporter in Terrorist Stronghold (#litres_trial_promo)
15. Any Slob Can Buy Shit (#litres_trial_promo)
16. A Whiff of the Old Bastard Himself (#litres_trial_promo)
17. Playing Hard to Get with a British Accent (#litres_trial_promo)
18. Couscous and Balaclava (#litres_trial_promo)
19. Saab Stories (#litres_trial_promo)
20. Edgar Earns His Savvy (#litres_trial_promo)
21. One Less Ugly Landmark (#litres_trial_promo)
22. Taken for SAPSS (#litres_trial_promo)
23. Impostor Syndrome (#litres_trial_promo)
24. Barba Is No Longer Boring (#litres_trial_promo)
25. Portugal Denies Immigration Overhaul Is SOB Appeasement (#litres_trial_promo)
26. Every Former Fat Boy’s Dream (#litres_trial_promo)
27. Friend of the Fucking Family (#litres_trial_promo)
28. Barrington Has Feelings (#litres_trial_promo)
29. Stealing Shit from Shitheads (#litres_trial_promo)
30. Supporting the Peace Process (#litres_trial_promo)
31. The Tooth Fairy Gives an Interview (#litres_trial_promo)
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