We Need to Talk about Kevin

Shriver, Lionel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006112429X ISBN 13: 9780061124297

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

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 understandher teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver's charged and incisive laternovels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin isa piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, familyties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as"sometimes searing . . . [and] impossible to put down."

Review:

"Shriver handles this material, with its potential for cheap sentiment and soap opera plot, with rare skill and sense."--Newark Star Ledger

"An underground feminist hit."--New York Observer

"Furiously imagined."--Seattle Times

"A slow, magnetic descent into hell that is as fascinating as it is disturbing."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Powerful [and] harrowing."--Entertainment Weekly

"Impossible to put down."--Boston Globe

"Ms. Shriver takes a calculated risk . . . but the gamble pays off as she strikes a tone of compelling intimacy."--Wall Street Journal

Book Description:

Exclusive author interview with Paul Blezard.
'Elegant investigation...with a brilliant denouement' Observer