{"product_id":"9780061124297","title":"We Need to Talk About Kevin : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lionel Shriver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly,Lionel Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understandher teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver’s charged and incisive laternovels, including \u003cem\u003eSo Much for That \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Post-Birthday World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin \u003c\/em\u003eisa piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, familyties, and responsibility, a book that the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e describes as“sometimes searing . . . [and] impossible to put down.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Ms. Shriver takes a calculated risk . . . but the gamble pays off as she strikes a tone of compelling intimacy.”\u003cbr\u003e“Furiously imagined.”\u003cbr\u003e“An underground feminist hit.”\u003cbr\u003e“A slow, magnetic descent into hell that is as fascinating as it is disturbing.”\u003cbr\u003e“Shriver handles this material, with its potential for cheap sentiment and soap opera plot, with rare skill and sense.”\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful [and] harrowing.”\u003cbr\u003e“Impossible to put down.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061124297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41108193837262,"sku":"9780061124297","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061124297.jpg?v=1649648797","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061124297","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}