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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.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400078776

ISBN-139781400078776

eBay Product ID (ePID)48426473

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Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

AuthorKazuo Ishiguro

Book SeriesVintage International

FormatPaperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews"A clear frontrunner to be the year's most extraordinary novel." The Times (UK) "So exquisitely observed that even the most workaday objects and interactions are infused with a luminous, humming otherworldliness. The dystopian story it tells, meanwhile, gives it a different kind of electric charge. . . . An epic ethical horror story, told in devastatingly poignant miniature. . . . Ishiguro spins a stinging cautionary tale of science outpacing ethics." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Perfect pacing and infinite subtlety. . . . That this stunningly brilliant fiction echoes Caryl Churchill's superb play A Number and Margaret Atwood's celebrated dystopian novels in no way diminishes its originality and power. A masterpiece of craftsmanship that offers an unparalleled emotional experience. Send a copy to the Swedish Academy." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Elegiac, compelling, otherworldly, deeply disturbing and profoundly moving." Sunday Herald (UK) "Brilliant . . . Ishiguro's most profound statement of the endurance of human relationships. . . . The most exact and affecting of his books to date." The Guardian (UK) "Ishiguro's elegant prose and masterly ways with characterization make for a lovely tale of memory, self-understanding, and love." Library Journal (starred review) "Ishiguro's provocative subject matter and taut, potent prose have earned him multiple literary decorations, including the French government's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an Order of the British Empire for service to literature.... In this luminous offering, he nimbly navigates the landscape of emotion the inevitable link between present and past and the fine line between compassion and cruelty, pleasure and pain." Booklist Praise for Kazuo Ishiguro: "His books are Zen gardens with no flowery metaphors, no wild, untamed weeds threatening or allowed to overrun the plot." The Globe and Mail "A writer of Ishiguro's intelligence, sensitivity and stylistic brilliance obviously offers rewards." The Gazette (Montreal) "Kazuo Ishiguro distinguishes himself as one of our most eloquent poets of loss." Joyce Carol Oates, TLS "Ishiguro is a stylist like no other, a writer who knows that the truth is often unspoken." Maclean's "One of the finest prose stylists of our time." Michael Ondaatje "Ishiguro shows immense tenderness for his characters, however absurd or deluded they may be." The Guardian "[Ishiguro is] an original and remarkable genius." The New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition., "A page turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish."Time "A Gothic tour de force. . . . A tight, deftly controlled story . . . . Just as accomplished [as The Remains of the Day] and, in a very different way, just as melancholy and alarming."The New York Times "Elegaic, deceptively lovely. . . . As always, Ishiguro pulls you under." Newsweek "Superbly unsettling, impeccably controlled . . . . The book's irresistible power comes from Ishiguro's matchless ability to expose its dark heart in careful increments." Entertainment Weekly

Dewey Edition22

Publication Date2006-03-14

Dewey Decimal823/.914

Lc Classification NumberPr6059.S5n48 2006