Yes,” my partner remarked after reading over my shoulder. “That’s just right.” He wouldn’t read another word until the book was finished. Hall, Eleanor (May 24, 2010), "US author scathing on Obama health reform", story/interview transcript and audio, ABC Online The World Today. Retrieved June 1, 2010. To do so, she creates characters who are unlikeable, sometimes deeply so, but oh-so-human: even Kevin. Unless you're a sociopath, which I think is one of her points, you cannot help but empathize with each of them at times; hate them at others; give them the benefit of the doubt frequently, too frequently perhaps, which is another. Wood, James (July 22, 2013). "Books: The Counterlife". The New Yorker. Vol.89, no.21. pp.76–78 . Retrieved October 30, 2014. Lo único que sé que es una novela escalofriante, dura, certera, realista y muy compleja. Que me ha encantado que más allá de centrar solamente la mirada sobre el mal encarnado que es Kevin, pone el foco sobre un proceso tan duro y complicado como lo es la maternidad, que aquí no está romantizada, mucho menos idealizada y por si fuera poco, retrata la bajada a los infiernos en el sentido de como un matrimonio puede irse destruyendo pedazo a pedazo mientras hace una crítica al sistema de los estados unidos sobre la posesión de armas.

Rutherford, Adrian (March 22, 2011), "Author’s generous legacy to beloved Belfast libraries", Belfast Telegraph. The power of the book is not in its brilliance or originality (because it can claim only a trace amount of both) -- its power lies in its subject and the passive-aggressive way in which it is delivered in the first person -- a cloying, nails-on-a-chalkboard supercilious tone surely meant to inflame. Its power is not in the reading, but rather what follows -- the heated, emotional, no-holds-barred tempest of feeling it can only serve to generate at its conclusion. It's an A-bomb type of deal -- right up there with abortion and capital punishment -- and it will make you question the very core of many of your beliefs. When diagnosed with low-tension glaucoma in the 1990s, she was warned that, if she lived long enough, she’d go blind. She’s lived long enough. As of last year, this formerly voracious reader can’t discern a carry-out menu, nor can she lay eyes on her beloved husband. A television is a radio with lots of dead airtime. Mostly, she sits in her wheelchair, chin on chest. I’ve no idea what goes on in her head.Lionel and her brother Timothy with their mother in Massachusetts, 1971. Photograph: Courtesy of Lionel Shriver I don't think a book has ever made me teary-eyed before! I have been known to sob while watching a movie but haven't actually while absorbed in a book. The novel was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name, starring Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller. [10]

a b "Lionel Shriver's full speech: 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' ". The Guardian. September 13, 2016 . Retrieved September 29, 2016.Is Eva such a cold mother because Kevin is who he is? Or did Kevin become who he is because Eva is such a cold mother? She voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. [27] In September 2022, Shriver released an open letter in which she endorsed Republican Ron DeSantis for the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. In the letter, she criticized both Biden and Donald Trump as poor leaders, and praised DeSantis for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, banning critical race theory in schools, opposing transgender women from competing in women's sports, and passing the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act; while noting that she disagrees with him on abortion. [27] Ma Shriver non fa sconti: se Eva sia o meno la madre nella quale identificarsi e specchiarsi conta relativamente, perché Eva è la madre di tutte le madri. Where the practice is permitted, qualifications for assisted dying vary, often involving a terminal diagnosis and a prognosis of death within six months. But more interesting to me is our private stipulations. In what circumstances do we personally regard life as unbearable?

Dawtrey, Adam (April 22, 2010). "The welcome return of Lynne Ramsay". guardian.co.uk (Guardian News & Media) . Retrieved April 22, 2010.Tolentino, Jia (September 14, 2016), "Lionel Shriver Puts On a Sombrero", The New Yorker. Retrieved August 3, 2021. In Memoriam: The Rev. Dr. Donald W. Shriver Jr". Union Theological Seminary. August 6, 2021 . Retrieved April 28, 2022. Que sí, que sí, que esto es un completo librazo y obviamente ya está encabezando el año como la mejor lectura. An epic book like "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is rare, yeah. I can see this as some rather strikingly beautiful monster composed of the few scary parts from Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby" and the more ominous tones of "The Omen". It's a modern psychology (dissected with words so carefully chosen, both intellectual and to-the-core precise) that deconstructs a past for the sake of...something. I won't tell. This one has a DYNAMITE ENDING that will rattle you, and then some. It is, truly, pretty much everything you'd ever want in a book (Shriver's account is WAAAAAY more compelling than Philip Roth's Pulitzer darling "American Pastoral", & they share the theme of the American dream-gone-bad, as parents are betrayed by their own American flag-toting offspring).