We Need to Talk About Kevin - Softcover

Shriver, Lionel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062119044 ISBN 13: 9780062119049

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

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."

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Review:

"Impossible to put down."--Boston Globe

"Furiously imagined."--Seattle Times

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

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

"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

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062119044
• ISBN 13: 9780062119049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432