We Need to Talk About Kevin
A Horror, Fiction, Crime book. It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. Lionel Shriver, We Need...
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.
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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9781852428891 / 1852428899
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It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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... 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... I've started this review 6 times now, and each time, I've deleted it because it doesn't quite convey the right thing. I think the problem is that I'm not sure just what that thing is. But one thing I do know is that I love books that make me feel like this... that "I don't know what I need to say but I need to say something, to talk...
