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Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor 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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- Authors:
- Shriver, Lionel
- Year Published:
- 2010
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781846687341
- Number of Pages:
- 496
- Publication Date:
- 29/04/2010
- Publisher:
- Profile Books Ltd
- Series:
- Serpent's Tail Classics
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9781846687341