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Original Title:	We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN:	006112429X (ISBN13: 9780061124297)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eva Khatchadourian, Kevin Khatchadourian, Franklin Plaskett, Celia Khatchadourian
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (2005)

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 148208 Users | 13299 Reviews

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Title	:	We Need to Talk About Kevin
Author	:	Lionel Shriver
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	July 3rd 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published April 14th 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Thriller

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The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.

Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered 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.

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In two of her novels, Shriver is not afraid to write about subjects which stick in the craw of most American's today. In her 2010 novel, So Much for That she tackled to American health care system and in 2003 in We Need to Talk About Kevin, it was school shootings. The story consists of Eva Khatchadourian's letters to her husband Franklin; they start from twelve months after their son Kevin has done the unthinkable and killed seven classmates, one teacher and a cafeteria worker. Eva is looking

A disturbing and gruesome epistolary novel that is not an easy read. It's like one of those horror movies where you know there is a monster with a BIG AX behind the door and still the actor moves forward. I kept thinking, NO! DO NOT HAVE ANOTHER BABY, DO NOT BUY A PET, AND FOR HEAVENS SAKE, DO NOT LET KEVIN BABYSIT!Not sure if I would recommend this book as it is NOT an enjoyable read or a book I would read again, but despite the sometimes drawn out 400 pages, I just had to keep reading to find

2 "snarky, sensationalistic, schlocky" stars !!! Third Most Disappointing Read of 2018 Award First of all an apology to my GR friends Debbie and Amanda who I know really loved this one...sorry gals I didn't so I'm going to rant !!Ummmm let's get this out of the way..... so frustrated !!Lionel Shriver can write ! She can write damn well with razor sharp observations on American Culture that are valid, important and on the mark !However...this book was such a miss on so many levels ---1. Kevin is

This book attacked my brain like a virus. The character of Kevin, the teenage murderer whose mom narrates the epistolary novel, was so disturbing and harrowingly well-drawn, that I think it caused some sort of chemical reaction in my brain. He gave me nightmares. I swear whenever I picked up the book gray clouds covered the sun.In a series of letters to her estranged husband, narrator Eva dissects her family's life, from the decision to have a child to the day her son locked 9 classmates and a

I am a little apprehensive as to how I should begin this review: there are so many things to talk about.First of all, I consider this to be truly a great work of literature, not simply "fiction". As a great writer of my native language said: "The real story is on the unwritten pages"; that is, it is the gaps, the pauses and the undercurrents between the characters (which the reader is forced to complete or imagine) which is the mark of great literature. This is one hundred percent correct as far

Jesus christ this book was a waste of time.I bought it with high hopes. Boy was I wrong. I dont even know where to begin. Basically every character in this book is an intolerable asshole. You're supposed to sympathize with them, but it's impossible because they are all such horrible people. The whole escapade turns in to a frustratingly unsatisfying schaudenfraud.Chapter after chapter contains nothing but the characters going OUT OF THEIR WAY to make you hate them. I hope this was intentional

Some readers really don't like this book and I'm not entirely sure why.Maybe it's because I'm not a mother and I did find it believable that Eva doesn't love her son completely. Maybe it's because I enjoy the big words that were used in the letters and found it believable that she would write this way.Maybe I'm a sucker for good endings and this one ended with a bang.I think the writing was superb and despite it being a hard book to read (the incident with the maps was particularly brutal), it