We Need to Talk About Kevin (Media Tie In, Reprint) (Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> Shriver approaches the tragedy of a high-school massacre from the point of view of the killer's mother. Eva, in the letters she writes to her estranged husband, probes the upbringing of their more-than-difficult child and reveals herself to have been a reluctant mother. As the schisms in her family unfold, the story draws closer to an unexpected climax that holds breathtaking surprises and its own hard-won redemption. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> <p><strong>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. </strong></p><p>Like Shriver's charged and incisive later novels, including <em>So Much for That </em>and <em>The Post-Birthday World</em>, <em>We Need to Talk About Kevin </em>is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility, a book that the <em>Boston Globe</em> describes as "sometimes searing . . . [and] impossible to put down."</p> <p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br> <p>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.</p> <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> "Furiously imagined."--<em>Seattle Times</em> </br></br>"A slow, magnetic descent into hell that is as fascinating as it is disturbing."--<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em> </br></br>"Impossible to put down."--<em>Boston Globe</em> </br></br>"Ms. Shriver takes a calculated risk . . . but the gamble pays off as she strikes a tone of compelling intimacy."--<em>Wall Street Journal</em> </br></br>"Powerful [and] harrowing."--<em>Entertainment Weekly</em> </br></br>"An underground feminist hit."--New York Observer </br></br>"Shriver handles this material, with its potential for cheap sentiment and soap opera plot, with rare skill and sense."--Newark Star Ledger
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