Bibliograph

We need to talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver

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We need to talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

We need to talk about Kevin

Medium

sound recording audiobook CD

Responsibility statement

Lionel Shriver

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?

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