We Need to Talk About Kevin
3 journalers for this copy...
I was doing so well in London last weekend, released some books, picked up a few books from the OBCZ. And then on Sunday, I made the fatal error of going into the new Waterstones on Oxford Street. The 3 for 2 table drew me over, and this was one of the choices!
this was recommended to me by a Zurich bookcrosser coffeestained, so I hope I enjoy it too!
this was recommended to me by a Zurich bookcrosser coffeestained, so I hope I enjoy it too!
A terrifying and haunting read.... quite unforgettable
Eva Katchadourian - smart, successful, liberal, blissfully happy in an unlikely partnership with her all-American, uber-patriotic husband Franklin - had always entertained some ambivalence about having a child. By the time their son was born she had actively begun to resent the intrusion, and, as if engaged in a silent pact, Kevin - from menacing infant to mendacious teenager - more than lived up to his mother's bewildered animosity. Yet even Eva could not have envisaged that he would, just before he turned 16, achieve notoriety by shooting dead seven of his fellow school pupils and two members of staff. In a series of letters to the now estranged Franklin, punctuated with mutually hostile prison visits to their incarcerated offspring, Eva painstakingly unravels the long history of Kevin's upbringing. Lionel Shriver's erudite, mordant, Orange Prize-winning novel cleverly balances the grand guignol and the mundane, using Eva's increasingly unreliable narrative to pose urgent questions of nature/ nurture, gender politics, and the blame culture of contemporary America. Catherine Taylor
Eva Katchadourian - smart, successful, liberal, blissfully happy in an unlikely partnership with her all-American, uber-patriotic husband Franklin - had always entertained some ambivalence about having a child. By the time their son was born she had actively begun to resent the intrusion, and, as if engaged in a silent pact, Kevin - from menacing infant to mendacious teenager - more than lived up to his mother's bewildered animosity. Yet even Eva could not have envisaged that he would, just before he turned 16, achieve notoriety by shooting dead seven of his fellow school pupils and two members of staff. In a series of letters to the now estranged Franklin, punctuated with mutually hostile prison visits to their incarcerated offspring, Eva painstakingly unravels the long history of Kevin's upbringing. Lionel Shriver's erudite, mordant, Orange Prize-winning novel cleverly balances the grand guignol and the mundane, using Eva's increasingly unreliable narrative to pose urgent questions of nature/ nurture, gender politics, and the blame culture of contemporary America. Catherine Taylor
just finished the book... amazing page turner, so shocking.
I have wanted to read this book for quite a while, so I was happy to find it in the free book library in Böckten. When I‘m done, I‘ll send it on it‘s way again
