We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062119044 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly A number of fictional attempts have been made to portray what might lead a teenager to kill a number of schoolmates or teachers, Columbine style, but Shriver's is the most triumphantly accomplished by far. Eva Khatchadourian is a smart, skeptical New Yorker whose impulsive marriage to Franklin, a much more conventional person, bears fruit, to her surprise and confessed disquiet, in baby Kevin. The narrative, which leads with quickening and horrifying inevitability to the moment when Kevin massacres seven of his schoolmates and a teacher at
Gets into your head Erin Secrist This book had my rapt attention for a weekend. I could not stop reading. While seeming a bit pretentious at first, the prose is consistent, sometimes beautiful, and definitely a part of the person we come to know as Eva Katchadourian. Once I became used to her style, it did not bother me; I understood it was Eva, not Lionel Shriver.The characterization in this novel is excellent, particularly that of Eva. She is possibly the most complete character I've ever read. I was annoyed at her at times, and even bewildered. Excellent Novel That is NOT Difficult to Read _We Need to Talk About. Kevin_ is an interesting exploration of the various factors that contribute to personalities of people who commit the school and other public forum mass murders that have plagued this country for the past 20 years. It explores questions of nature vs. nurture in developing what would be called a psychopath if the person in question were over the age of 18 (psychiatrists will not diagnose anyone under 18 as being psychopathic, i.e. suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder). Without spec. "compelling at times, too long, flawed characters" according to B. Capossere. Kevin is one of a recent series of "Columbine" books--those that try and plumb the characters of young boys who plan high school massacres. Some are just bad (Vernon God Little), others are great (Project X). Kevin falls in the middle. Its major strength is the compelling nature of the premise--just what is it that caused young Kevin (in prison at the time of the novel's present) to kill several of his classmates and some school staff? It's the sort of question we all know there is no real answer for, and yet we f
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Like Shriver’s charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “sometimes searing . . . and impossible to put down.”. Reilly, Lionel Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities