We Need to Talk about Kevin Tie-In

by Shriver, Lionel
ISBN: 9780062119049
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Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities.

Like Shriver's charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as "sometimes searing . . . and] impossible to put down."

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Shriver, Lionel
  • ISBN: 9780062119049
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 432
  • Publication Year: 2011

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  • A harrowing and tender tale of a boy's horrible wrongdoings and a mother's love

    Malarie P. - 2 years 6 months ago

    Lionel Shriver's eighth novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, winner of the Orange Prize in 2005, is truly a work of art--harrowing and unforgettable. The story follows a mother, Eva Katchadourian, as she struggles to come to terms with her son's brutal massacre of nine of his fellow high school students. Told in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Eva's story is one of both great tenderness and great insecurity. Eva struggles with her love for her husband and her son, Kevin, questioning whether her failings as a wife and mother are to blame for Kevin's horrendous actions. The prose is lush, elegant and moving. Readers are compelled to feel sympathetic for Eva, even as her husband, Franklin, continually sees her uncertain feelings toward Kevin as unprovoked and unfair. The novel, though often philosophical and meditative, was riveting and kept me deeply engaged throughout the entire 400 pages. This is not a book I will forget anytime soon.

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