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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

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Mother's grapple with son's harrowing violent act.

"We Need to Talk About Kevin" offers a deep, psychological dive into a family's darkest corners. It's gut-wrenching and thought-provoking, forcing you to confront uncomfortable truths about parenthood and societal pressures. Lionel Shriver crafts a narrative so intense and real, it can feel like reading a personal confession. Perfect, if you're in for an unsettling yet profound experience.

  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2005)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin

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ISBN: 9780062119049
Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date of Publication: 2011-12-27
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.08
(rated by 200420 readers)

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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.”
 

Mother's grapple with son's harrowing violent act.

"We Need to Talk About Kevin" offers a deep, psychological dive into a family's darkest corners. It's gut-wrenching and thought-provoking, forcing you to confront uncomfortable truths about parenthood and societal pressures. Lionel Shriver crafts a narrative so intense and real, it can feel like reading a personal confession. Perfect, if you're in for an unsettling yet profound experience.

  • Orange Prize for Fiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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