We Need to Talk About Kevin

Shriver, Lionel

ISBN 10: 1852428899 / ISBN 13: 9781852428891

Published by Serpent's Tail, London, UK, 2005

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This is the UK Trade Paperback (not to be confused with the mass market paperback). No hardback was produced in the UK, so this paperback original is the true UK first edition / first printing. Has the full number string 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. The spine is a little creased (ie the book has been read) and there is a small crease on the front cover and minor shelfwear to the page edges.Otherwise, a very nice, tight copy of this Orange Prize-winning novel about a boy who might or might not be a psychopath. We store all our books out of sunlight, and send them with care.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail, London, UK
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852428899
• ISBN 13: 9781852428891
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Lionel Shriver's books include Orange Prize-winner We Need to Talk About Kevin [9781846688065], So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for many publications. She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling novelist, playwright and nonfiction author with sales of more than eight million copies in 38 languages. Renowned for bringing unheard and under-heard histories to life, she is a champion of women's creativity. Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, sits on the Executive Committee of Women of the World and is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Kate lives in West Sussex with her husband and mother-in-law.