The Resource We need to talk about Kevin : a novel, Lionel Shriver
We need to talk about Kevin : a novel, Lionel Shriver
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- Summary
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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, Franklyn. 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."-- Cover, p. [4]
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Extent
- 400, 16 p.
- Note
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- Originally published: New York : Counterpoint, 2003
- Includes insights, interviews & more
- Isbn
- 9780061124297
- Label
- We need to talk about Kevin : a novel
- Title
- We need to talk about Kevin
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lionel Shriver
- Subject
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- trueParent and child
- trueTeenage boys
- trueTeenage murderers
- Epistolary fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- trueMass shootings
- trueSchool shootings
- trueMass murder
- Epistolary fiction
- trueTeenagers and violence
- High schools -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueParents of criminals
- trueHigh school students
- truePsychological fiction
- trueHigh schools
- trueHusband and wife
- trueMassacres
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- Massacres -- Fiction
- trueNew York (State)
- trueViolence in schools
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- 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, Franklyn. 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."-- Cover, p. [4]
- Summary
- 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
- Award
- Orange Prize for Fiction, 2005.
- Awards note
- Orange Prize for Fiction, 2005.
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- 120264
- Cataloging source
- JBO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shriver, Lionel
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Teenage boys
- High schools
- Massacres
- New York (State)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- We need to talk about Kevin : a novel, Lionel Shriver
- Note
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- Originally published: New York : Counterpoint, 2003
- Includes insights, interviews & more
- Control code
- ocm74654381
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Extent
- 400, 16 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061124297
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)74654381
- Label
- We need to talk about Kevin : a novel, Lionel Shriver
- Note
-
- Originally published: New York : Counterpoint, 2003
- Includes insights, interviews & more
- Control code
- ocm74654381
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Extent
- 400, 16 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061124297
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)74654381
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBooks to movies
- Epistolary fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- trueHigh school students
- trueHigh schools
- High schools -- Fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- trueMass murder
- trueMass shootings
- trueMassacres
- Massacres -- Fiction
- trueNew York (State)
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- trueParent and child
- trueParents of criminals
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSchool shootings
- trueTeenage boys
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- trueTeenage murderers
- trueTeenagers and violence
- trueViolence in schools
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBooks to movies
- Epistolary fiction
- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
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