We Need to Talk About Kevin - Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005. A Novel
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| Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
| Auflage | 2006 |
| Seiten | 432 |
| Format | 20,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 328 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 006112429X |
| EAN | 9780061124297 |
| Bestell-Nr | 06112429EA |
The mother of a teenage boy who killed seven fellow students and two adults in a high-school shooting writes a series of letters to her estranged husband on their son\'s upbringing and questions what she fears may be her own part in the tragedy.
Klappentext:
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly,Lionel Shriver\'s resonant story of a mother\'s unsettling quest to understandher teenage son\'s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver\'s charged and incisive laternovels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin isa piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, familyties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as"sometimes searing . . . [and] impossible to put down."
Rezension:
"Ms. Shriver takes a calculated risk . . . but the gamble pays off as she strikes a tone of compelling intimacy." Wall Street Journal
