We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin

by KateMosse (Introduction), Lionel Shriver (Author)

Synopsis

Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. 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 absent 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. Adapted and directed by Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher), the film of We Need to Talk About Kevin stars Tila Swinton (I Am Love) and John C. Reilly (The Aviator), with Ezra Miller (Californication) as the eponymous teenage murderer.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 18 Aug 2011

ISBN 10: 184668806X
ISBN 13: 9781846688065
Book Overview: Film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, directed by Lynne Ramsay, tipped for the Oscars 2012, and with the DVD release on 13 February

Media Reviews
Stunning * Daily Mail *
Startling * Guardian *
Superb * Daily Telegraph *
Fierce * Independent *
Pitch-perfect, devastating and utterly convincing * Geoff Dyer *
The best thing I've read in years * Jeremy Vine *
Author Bio
Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications. She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.