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Lionel Shriver – A Better Life

Lionel Shriver A Better Life review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Harper Collins will publish the Lionel Shriver novel on February 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Lionel Shriver A Better Life

A Better Life

  • Author: Lionel Shriver (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • To be released: February 10, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 27.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Lionel Shriver novel

In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his “hovercraft repose.”

As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico’s sisters, while finding her way into Gloria’s heart and even, briefly, Nico’s. But as Martine’s disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother’s altruism and the “migrant crisis” in general—and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.

Based loosely on a program a New York City mayor floated but did not initiate, A Better Life is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times.

Lionel Shriver was born on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. She has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications including, The Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

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Sylvester Stallone – The Steps

Sylvester Stallone The Steps memoir of the American actor and film director. Harper Collins will publish the autobiographical book by Sylvester Stallone, on May 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Sylvester Stallone The Steps

The Steps

A Memoir

  • Author: Sylvester Stallone (United States)
  • Book type: memoir
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • To be released: May 5, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 32.50 / $ 14.99 / $ 27.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book by Sylvester Stallone. the American actor and film director

A gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told.

In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, he and those steps have become symbols of resilience and determination, and have inspired millions from all over the world to pursue their dreams. In The Steps, Stallone recounts how he pursued his own dreams. A culmination of decades of reflection, Stallone shares where he came from—a difficult birth, an even more difficult childhood, years of struggle in school being misunderstood—and he explains how the real story of a successful life is built by facing, embracing, and ultimately overcoming our challenges. It’s found in the distances we are willing to go and the steps we must take to get from where we are to where we want to go.

In a narrative framed between his arrival in New York City in 1969 and the triumph of Rocky at the 1977 Academy Awards, Stallone weaves a vivid and propulsive portrait of struggle, subsistence, and ultimately success. He writes of his early days and later years, too, and the persistence, creativity, and resilience that led not only to the creation of Rocky but to a career filled with remarkably iconic roles. The Steps is a testament to Stallone’s extraordinary life and a profound meditation on the importance of vision and willpower and hard work.

Sylvester Stallone was born July 6, 1946, in Hell’s Kitchen. Manhattan, New York. He is the creative force behind some of the most lasting and iconic characters in film, including Rocky Balboa in the Academy Award-winning Rocky, and John Rambo in First Blood as well as the blockbuster franchise The Expendables. In addition to being a prolific writer and director, he is the only actor to open a number one film across six decades. He currently stars in the critically acclaimed hit TV series Tulsa King, where he also acts as executive producer and writer. He and his wife Jennifer share three beautiful daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet.

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