We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback)

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2005 Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian?s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.

Title - We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback)

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Author - Lionel Shriver

ISBN 13 - 9781852424671

Imprint - Serpent's Tail

Publisher - Profile Books Ltd

Date Published - 09/05/2006

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 28mm

Weight - 335 g

Languages - English