Never Let Me Go - Signed - First Edition
Ishiguro, Kazuo
From The Old Bookshop Collection, Blaenavon, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since June 8, 2023
From The Old Bookshop Collection, Blaenavon, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since June 8, 2023
About this Item
Signed, first edition, first impression in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket in near fine condition some very small bumps to the edges of the top but hardly noticeable, some slight scratches on the back. Book in near fine condition edges sharp slight bumping to the top and base of the spine, no spine lean, clean boards, text block quite clean, head slightly foxed. More photos available on request. In general a lovely copy. Time magazine named the best novel of 2005 and included it in its list of the 100 best English language novels since 1923. In Never Let Me Go he has fashioned another remarkable story - a story of love, loss and hidden truths - that takes its place amongst his finest work.Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The Children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, slowly come face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods - and about their futures.Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives. Seller Inventory # ABE-1705929231337
Bibliographic Details
Title: Never Let Me Go - Signed - First Edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy's matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro's best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure. --Regina Marler
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