We need to talk about Kevin
Shriver, Lionel2003
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Kevin Katchadourian killed seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher shortly before his sixteenth birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband Franklin the story of Kevin's upbringing. A successful career woman, Eva had been reluctant to forgo her independence and the life she shared with Franklin to become a mother. Once Kevin was born, she experienced extreme alienation and dislike of Kevin as he grew up to become a spiteful and cruel child. After Kevin committed murder, Eva fears that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become. But how much is she to blame? And if it isn't her fault, why did he do it?
Main title:
We need to talk about Kevin / Lionel Shriver.
Author:
Shriver, Lionel, author
Imprint:
Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2015.©2003.
Collation:
468 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"First published in 2003 by Counterpoint."--T. p. verso.
Awards:
Orange Prize for Fiction, 2005.
ISBN:
9781921145087 (paperback)1921145080 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3619.H75.W4 2006
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
126176