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We need to talk about Kevin

  • Lionel Shriver

4.12

17 ratings

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]

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Teenage boys
  • Massacres
  • High schools
  • New York Times bestseller
  • nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2012-01-14
  • Novel
  • High school students
  • Mothers and sons
  • Mass murder
  • Mothers and sons, fiction
  • New york (state), fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Crime, fiction
  • Thriller
  • Drama
  • Garçons adolescents
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Écoles secondaires
  • Violence scolaire
  • Enfant violent
  • New York (État)
  • Enfants inadaptés
  • Violence dans les écoles
  • Schüler
  • Massaker
  • Mutter
  • Sohn
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About the author

  • Lionel Shriver

    born 18 May 1957

    4.19

    27 ratings · 35 works

Editions

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    Videograf II

    Apr 14, 2008

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    Buchgemeinschaften

    Mar 20, 2012

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    Piemme

    2008

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    Ungekürzte Ausg., 1. Aufl.

    List

    2007

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Everest Yayinlari

Nov 03, 2008

  • Edition cover

    Counterpoint Press

    Jan 10, 2004

  • Edition cover

    1ª edición

    Anagrama

    2019

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    Editorial Anagrama S.A.

    Jun 30, 2007

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    Belfond

    2006

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    Wyd. 3. Chorzów 2011.

    Videograf II

    2011

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    Counterpoint

    Mar 15, 2003

  • Edition cover

    Serpent's Tail

    2011

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    Text Publishing Company

    2006

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    Text Publishing Company

    2011

  • Edition cover

    5 star paperback ed.

    Serpent's Tail

    2006

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    Profile Books Ltd

    2010

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    Counterpoint Press, Serpent's Tail

    April 14, 2003

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    Harper Perennial

    2016

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    Harper Perennial

    July 3, 2006

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    Harper Perennial

    July 3, 2006

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    Counterpoint

    2003

  • Edition cover

    1st Perennial ed.

    Perennial, Harper Perennial

    2004

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    HarperCollins

    2011

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    Sagah

    2005

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    Serpent's Tail Limited

    2009

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    Harper Perennial

    2011-12-27

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    Editions France Loisirs

    2007-01-01

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    Politiken

    2012-01-01

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    Piper Verlag Gmbh

    2017-05-02

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    Atlas Contact

    2021-07-06

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    Counterpoint Press

    2011

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    Serpent's Tail Limited

    2016

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    Perennial / Harper-collins

    2011-01-01

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    Editorial Anagrama S.A.

    2020

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    TBS/GBS/Transworld

    2010

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    Counterpoint

    2003