From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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mdthadg (Grade: A–) Not a feel-good read. Much of the novel is basically a young girl's diary, and it includes all the stereotypical things you'd expect a young girl to write about (popularity, boys, changing friendships) but the circumstances that the novel places the characters in make reading about things that would otherwise seem trivial have a lasting impact.
(Rated on Sep 3, 2013)
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intellijen (Grade: B) wow. very emotional. it had a very slow reveal as to what was going on and, not having looked ahead in the book, coming to the last page stunned me. my feelings about this book were like a pendulum. it took me a while to become engaged, but once i was, i was fully committed and couldn't wait to find out what happened next.
(Rated on Feb 17, 2014)
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spfx crew (Grade: B–) Extremely slow. There are so many implications and questions about the world the author creates that are not explored.
(Rated on May 24, 2014)
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bennett_the_ceo
(Grade: C–) Ishiguro's plan for this novel is compelling. Take a sci-fi concept but present it at a personal level, and do it with a literary tone but through the lens of a young adult narrator. Unfortunately the strategy never pays off in a satisfying way. The narrator is a tedious teenager, the tone is more muddling than engaging, and the intimacy of the narrative limits the book's impact. Plus, after refusing to dig into specifics for so long, Ishiguro still resorts to an info-dump at the end.
(Grade: C–) Ishiguro's plan for this novel is compelling. Take a sci-fi concept but present it at a personal level, and do it with a literary tone but through the lens of a young adult narrator. Unfortunately the strategy never pays off in a satisfying way. The narrator is a tedious teenager, the tone is more muddling than engaging, and the intimacy of the narrative limits the book's impact. Plus, after refusing to dig into specifics for so long, Ishiguro still resorts to an info-dump at the end.(Rated on Nov 1, 2016)
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VonBrandtner (Grade: B–) Good coming of age story. Not quite as good sci-fi/distopian.
(Rated on Mar 24, 2014)
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