We need to talk about Kevin / Lionel Shriver.
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TextPublication details: New York : Counterpoint, 2003Description: 400 p. ; 25 cm. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781921145087; 9781921758492Subject(s): Teenage boys -- Fiction | High schools -- Massacres -- Fiction | Motherhood -- Fiction | New York (State) -- FictionGenre/Form: Epistolary fiction DDC classification: 813/.54 Online resources: Click here to search for similar authors using Fiction Connection Awards: Orange Prize for Fiction, 2005.Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F SHR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | al42000167029b |
Also published : London : Serpent's Tail, 2005, and Melbourne : Text, 2006, 2011.
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.
Orange Prize for Fiction, 2005.
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