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We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback S.) ISBN: 1852424672 ISBN13: 9781852424671 We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback S.) By: Lionel Shriver Publisher: Serpent's Tail Format: Paperback Our Price: 5.59 Discount: 30% RRP: 7.99

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.


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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. This title tells a story while framing the horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as a metaphor for the larger tragedy.

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