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Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors 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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We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver
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- Année de publication
- 2005
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Lionel Shriver
- Éditeur
- Serpent´s Tail
- Publié
- 2005
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 1852428899
- ISBN13
- 9781852428891
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Amour, Thriller, Famille, Littérature contemporaine, Suspense, Horreur, États-Unis, Relations, Meurtres, L'école, Thrillers psychologiques, Adapté au cinéma, New York, Violence, Amérique, Relations familiales, Lettres, Lycée, Mères, Haine, Tir, Romans épistolaires, Enfants à problèmes de comportement
- Première publication
- 2005
- Titre original
- We Need to Talk about Kevin
- Évaluation
- 4,05 sur 5
- Description
- Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.