02051cam a2200361 i 4500 1108564559 TxAuBib 20240106120000.0 071222s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780061124297 paperback 006112429X paperback TxAuBib rda Shriver, Lionel. We need to talk about Kevin : a novel / by Lionel Shriver. First Harper Perennial edition. New York : Harper Perennial, 2006. 400, 16 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : Counterpoint, 2003. Includes an interview with the author and other extras. The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry. Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. 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 estranged husband, Franklin. 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. 20240106. Teenage boys Fiction. High schools Juvenile fiction. School shootings Fiction. Massacres Fiction. New York (State) Fiction. Epistolary fiction. TXKPL