Awards
Orange Prize for Fiction
BCA Crime Thriller of the Year (nominee)
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Orange Prize for Fiction
BCA Crime Thriller of the Year (nominee)
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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Used availability for Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Hardback Editions
January 2006 : Hardback
| Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin Author(s): Douglas Kennedy Publisher: Hyperion Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 2004 : Hardback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-58243-317-8 / 9781582433172 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2003 : Hardback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-58243-267-8 / 9781582432670 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
December 2011 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel (P.S.) Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-06-211904-4 / 978-0-06-211904-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2011 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-84668-806-X / 9781846688065 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2011 : Perfect Paperback
| Title: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN EXP Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-84668-788-8 / 9781846687884 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
April 2010 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail Classics) Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-84668-734-9 / 9781846687341 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2007 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver Publisher: Perennial / Harper-collins Availability: Amazon More details... |
July 2006 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-06-112429-X / 978-0-06-112429-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2006 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-85242-467-2 / 9781852424671 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2005 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-85242-889-9 / 9781852428891 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2004 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-58243-268-6 / 9781582432687 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint,U.S. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2004 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-06-072448-X / 978-0-06-072448-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2003 : Paperback
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2003 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-921145-08-0 / 9781921145087 (Australia edition) Publisher: Text Publishing Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2003 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-9654995-6-1 / 978-0-9654995-6-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
May 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-7528-7476-4 / 978-0-7528-7476-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Orion Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-7528-7477-2 / 978-0-7528-7477-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Orion Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2005 : Audio CD
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): LIONEL SHRIVER ISBN: 1-4193-8545-3 / 978-1-4193-8545-2 (USA edition) Publisher: CLIPPER AUDIO Availability: Amazon More details... |
2005 : Audio Cassette
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): LIONEL SHRIVER ISBN: 1-84505-544-6 / 9781845055448 (UK edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
May 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s): Lionel Shriver Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2006 : Unknown
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin (Download) Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-7528-7652-X (UK edition) Publisher: Orion Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2006 : Unknown
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| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Signed ed Author(s): Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1-84579-225-4 / 9781845792251 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpents Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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