{"product_id":"mania","title":"Mania","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if calling someone stupid was illegal? In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExams and grades are all discarded, and smart phones are rebranded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word and encouraged to report parents for using it. You don't need a qualification to be a doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest friends since adolescence, Pearson and Emory find themselves on opposing sides of this new culture war. Radio personality Emory – who has built her career riding the tide of popular thought – makes increasingly hard-line statements while, for her part, Pearson believes the whole thing is ludicrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their friendship fractures, Pearson's determination to cling onto the 'old, bigoted way of thinking' begins to endanger her job, her safety and even her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLionel Shriver turns her piercing gaze on the policing of opinion and intellect, and imagines a world in which intellectual meritocracy is heresy. Hilarious, deadpan, scathing and at times frighteningly plausible, MANIA will delight the many fans of her fiction and journalism alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEDS Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018278453471,"sku":"9780008658717","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780008658717.jpg?v=1748403303","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/mania","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}