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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	:	Anniversary 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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I give this one a couple of meager points for addressing the difficult subject I realise I'm supposed to love my own child but actually I don't because frankly he's a weirdo and always with the backchat, if he fell in a cementmixer how much better would my life be, a lot, and would the world be any the worse, no.Doris Lessing addressed the topic also in her weedy novel The Fifth Child. It's a big taboo, and all that.For my money though, bypass these poor excuses and go straight to nettyflix or

I did not like this book. Honestly, what was to like about it? The topic is horrifying, the characters are hateful (and not just the characters that commit mass murders) and the writing style is the worst of all. From the first page I was SO irritated by the writing. I'll bet that the first purchase Ms. Shriver made after finding a publisher for this book was a new thesaurus. I'm positive that hers was absolutely worn out. It was like, "Hi! Let's see how fancy we can sound!" Especially for a

This book should be sold at the pharmaceutical counter right next to birth control pills, I cant think of a better deterrent for unwanted pregnancy. It did a great job of confirming a few truisms, maternal instincts are not a given, some children are just born bad, and the worst mistake a couple can make is to allow a child to divide them. Its the story of Kevin, a lethal mix of nature and poor nurturing resulting in the child from hell. Yet its the character of his mother Eva that I found the

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

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

This is an unsettling book, although I would not say (as one critic did) that it is harrowing. It lacks the immediacy that this would need, as it is exclusively told in flashback, and furthermore the structure is epistolary - in fact it could almost qualify as a series of soliloquies.The main character (Eva) is trying to search through her memories to establish whether she could be responsible in any way for her 15 year old son's killing of several of his schoolmates and two adults. This is not

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