Awards
BCA Crime Thriller of the Year (nominee)
Orange Prize for Fiction
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BCA Crime Thriller of the Year (nominee)
Orange Prize for Fiction
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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Hardback Editions
January 2004 : Hardback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1582433178 / 9781582433172 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Press Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
March 2003 : Hardback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1582432678 / 9781582432670 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Paperback Editions
December 2011 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin Tie-In (P.S.) Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0062119044 / 9780062119049 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
August 2011 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 184668806X / 9781846688065 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
April 2011 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Exp Author(s):: Shriver Lionel ISBN: 1846687888 / 9781846687884 (UK edition) Publisher: Profile Books Availability: Amazon UK |
April 2010 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail Classics) Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1846687349 / 9781846687341 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
June 2006 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 006112429X / 9780061124297 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
January 2006 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1852424672 / 9781852424671 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon |
March 2005 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1852428899 / 9781852428891 (UK edition) Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
March 2004 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1582432686 / 9781582432687 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint,U.S. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
April 2004 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 006072448X / 9780060724481 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
2003 : Paperback
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0965499561 / 9780965499569 (USA edition) Publisher: Perseus Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
2003 : Paperback
| Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1921145080 / 9781921145087 (Australia edition) Publisher: Text Publishing Availability: Amazon UK |
Audio Editions
May 2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0752874772 / 9780752874777 (UK edition) Publisher: Orion Availability: Amazon UK Amazon Amazon CA |
May 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0752874764 / 9780752874760 (UK edition) Publisher: Orion Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
2005 : Audio Cassette
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: LIONEL SHRIVER ISBN: 1845055446 / 9781845055448 (UK edition) Publisher: Availability: Amazon |
2005 : Audio CD
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: LIONEL SHRIVER ISBN: 1419385453 / 9781419385452 (USA edition) Publisher: CLIPPER AUDIO Availability: Amazon |
Kindle Editions
May 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: B004ZY0VHY Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
July 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: We Need To Talk About Kevin Author(s):: Lionel Shriver ISBN: B003F5NSTW Publisher: Serpent's Tail Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
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