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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE read more Interactive online message board now live - visit here Reading group questions here (but don?t spoil the plot!) Read an extract --------------------- 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherProfile Books
ISBN-139781852428891
eBay Product ID (ePID)86445034
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Book TitleWe Need to Talk about Kevin
AuthorLionel Shriver
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2005
Dimensions
Item Height213mm
Item Width132mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLionel Shriver
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom