It's hard to imagine a more striking demolition job on the American myth of the perfect suburban family Shriver keeps up an almost unbearable suspense. A powerful, gripping and original meditation on evil It is Desperate Housewives as written by Euripides. One of the most striking works of fiction to be published this year. With We Need to Talk About Kevin, Shriver has wielded Kafka's axe with devastating force Franz Kafka wrote that a book should be the ice-pick that breaks open the frozen seas inside us, because the books that make us happy we could have written ourselves. Read more victor so farĪn awesomely smart, stylish and pitiless achievement. This startling shocker strips bare motherhood. a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose. Read more she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood.

Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become.

Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Description for We Need to Talk About Kevin Paperback.

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