We Need To Talk About Kevin - Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005. Introduction by Kate Mosse
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| Verlag | Profile Books |
| Auflage | 2010 |
| Seiten | 496 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,6 x 3,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Serpent's Tail Classics |
| ISBN-10 | 1846687349 |
| EAN | 9781846687341 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84668734UA |
The Women's Prize for Fiction winning, million copy bestseller: now a Serpent's Tail classic, with a new foreword by Kate Mosse
Klappentext:
§WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010
ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor 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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Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it... a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular Daily Mail