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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
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Description for We Need to Talk About Kevin
Paperback. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, ... Read more
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Serpent's Tail Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781255674
SKU
V9781781255674
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Ref
99-13
About Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Marie ... Read more
Reviews for We Need to Talk About Kevin
Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it ... a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular
Daily Mail
This startling shocker strips bare motherhood... the most remarkable Orange prize ... Read more
Daily Mail
This startling shocker strips bare motherhood... the most remarkable Orange prize ... Read more