We Need to Talk About Kevin Paperback English by Lionel Shriver - 38535

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Publisher	Serpent's Tail
ISBN 10	1846687349
Book Format	Paperback
Book Description	WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010 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, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.
About the Author	Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prizewinner We Need to Talk About Kevin, 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, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications. She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.
Edition Number	2010 Edition
Number of Pages	496

ISBN 13	9781846687341
Author	Lionel Shriver
Language	English
Editorial Review	"'As a mother of two, reading Lionel Shriver's novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin was a comfort and a revelation, I'm not the only one who agonised over what the impact of having a child would be, felt invaded by pregnancy and was terrified at the awesome responsibility of becoming a mother and being held responsible for whatever adult I turn out. It's a profoundly important novel with universal appeal. It's beautifully written and a sometimes shocking, but always gripping read.' Jenni Murray; 'A thoughtful and deeply disquieting novel... beautifully conceived' The Onion"
Language	English
Publication Date	38535

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We Need to Talk About Kevin Paperback English by Lionel Shriver - 38535

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