Big Brother
by Lionel Shriver
Fourth Estate $29.99 pb, 373 pp, 9780732296384
Fiction
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Reviewed by Kerryn Goldsworthy •
The novel for which Lionel Shriver is best known, We Need to Talk about Kevin (2003), generated endless discussion across the spectrum of readers, from buzzing suburban home-based reading groups to the pages of the Guardian and the New York Times. Much of this discussion circled around the question of the first-person narrator and mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and her relationships with her uncomprehending husband and her psychopathic son.
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Big Brother
by Lionel Shriver
Fourth Estate $29.99 pb, 373 pp, 9780732296384
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