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A beautiful hardcover edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most acclaimed novels: a deeply moving and stunningly original love story with a startling twist
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.
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A beautiful hardcover edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most acclaimed novels: a deeply moving coming-of-age story with a stunning twist. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spent their childhoods at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic 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, the three are reunited as young adults. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the friends are compelled to face the dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing fa ade and its implications for their lives now. With deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals a devastating emotional depth and resonance--and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest works.
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From the Nobel laureate and author of Klara and the Sun, a beautiful hardcover edition of one of the his most acclaimed novels: a deeply moving and stunningly original love story with a startling twist
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.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.