Eleanor Merritt, a
do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to
improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in
love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his
misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the
human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the
poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.
Set
against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa—a continent
now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort—Lionel
Shriver's Game Control is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas
and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the
hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't
like people.
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