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We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel (P.S.) - Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel (P.S.)
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for... show more
Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.
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Format: paperback
ASIN: B009D7CP2M
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
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Aerin
Aerin rated it
4.5 Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin, while not the best novel I’ve read in 2014, is certainly the most gripping, the one that had me turning pages late into the night and frustrating me all day at work when I couldn’t be reading it. And, as the title declares, it’s the one I feel most compelled to talk abou...
lauredhel
lauredhel rated it
4.0 We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel (P.S.)
No detailed review - there's been quite enough said already about this book! I do love a good unreliable narrator - and I loved that I didn't know she was an unreliable narrator before I started the book. The content was gruesome, but Shriver kept me turning the pages, rushing toward the finale, des...
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