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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
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| By: |
Lionel Shriver, Lionel Shriver, Lorelei King |
| Format: |
CD-Audio |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0752874764 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780752874760 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
4 May, 2006 |
| Edition: |
Abridged edition |
| Description: |
Exclusive author interview with Paul Blezard. 'Elegant investigation...with a brilliant denouement' Observer |
| Synopsis: |
Kevin Khatchadourian killed several of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher, shortly before his sixteenth birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. A successsful career woman, Eva is reluctant to forgo her independence and the life she shares with Franklin to become a mother. Once Kevin is born, she experiences extreme alienation and dislike of Kevin as he grows up to become a spiteful and cruel child. When Kevin commits his murderous act, Eva fears that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become. But how much is she to blame? |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction 2005
Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Crime Thriller of the Year 2006 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |