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A carregar... Never Let Me Go (2005)por Kazuo Ishiguro
  
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 Ishiguro is extremely good at recreating the special, oppressive atmosphere of school (and any other institution, for that matter)—the cliques that form, the covert rivalries, the obsessive concern with who sat next to whom, who was seen talking to whom, who is in favor at one moment and who is not.  The eeriest feature of this alien world is how familiar it feels. It's like a stripped-down, haiku vision of children everywhere, fending off the chaos of existence by inventing their own rules. "Never Let Me Go" is marred by a slapdash, explanatory ending that recalls the stilted, tie-up-all-the loose-ends conclusion of Hitchcock's "Psycho." The remainder of the book, however, is a Gothic tour de force that showcases the same gifts that made Mr. Ishiguro's 1989 novel, "The Remains of the Day," such a cogent performance. This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all. It's about why we don't explode, why we don't just wake up one day and go sobbing and crying down the street, kicking everything to pieces out of the raw, infuriating, completely personal sense of our lives never having been what they could have been. Pertence à Série da EditoraEstá contido emTem a adaptaçãoTem como guia de referência/texto acompanhanteTem como estudoTem um guia de estudo para estudantes
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10
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This is the first book I've read by Kazuo Ishiguro but it certainly won't be the last. The way this man writes, his subtleties and brilliant way of affecting my emotions, blew me away. This book blew me away. I still can't stop thinking about it, about the characters and the situation they were all in. It also reminds me...moreI think this is one of those books which you either hate or love. I'm one of those people who love it, though. I've heard and read so many different reviews about it.
This is the first book I've read by Kazuo Ishiguro but it certainly won't be the last. The way this man writes, his subtleties and brilliant way of affecting my emotions, blew me away. This book blew me away. I still can't stop thinking about it, about the characters and the situation they were all in. It also reminds me of how fragile and vulnerable we all (human race) are.
I know this is going to be a movie, I just hope it will make this wonderful book justice. (