Bio::
- Kazuo Ishiguro (wiki)
- Biographical essay by the Guardian
- Nagasaki (wiki) :: Birthplace of Ishiguro
- NY Times Author Page on Ishiguro (many links)
- Ishiguro on writing the novel
- 2 interviews on BookBrows
- New Yorker review (printable)
- London Times review
- Salon review
- Margaret Atwood's review
- Review at Mostly Fiction (more links at end)
- Links to more reviews
- Not sure how or why I found these great links at a site called "UN jobs"
- Media & Culture review
- Decent reviews, but annoying ads; turn volume off if you can or skip
- Rather nice blog discussion of the book
- Another blog discussion :: To see the hidden text (white space), just highlight it (click & drag the cursor).
- Regular people post their opinions
- Amazon MOST HELPFUL reviews (to see starred items, click on 1-5 above)
In other news::: Margaret Drabble retires from the writing life
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~UPCOMING TITLES:- Classics Klatch :: For May 7th :: Father & Sons by Turgenev.
- For May 21, William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
- For June 18th, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Mosley's favorite book.
- For July 16th, Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Nights!
1 comment:
Thanks for a great couple of discussions last week on Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Lots of content... and plenty of form to match. Several in the pm group thought it hard to read... finding that the tone fostered "dullness" and enhanced the lack of action. Others found it amazing that a man could write so well from a ...hmm.. woman's p.o.v., as well as incorporating the "fog" or denial or innate immaturity of Kath.
Question about the trash on the fence at the end: I, personally, did not think it symbolic that the kids' lives were disposable, any more than anyone's might not have had as much meaning as hoped for (btw: who decides?)
RE: Escaping... didn't seem to be an option. They were being socialized not to; they were as children, being brought up, mostly benignly (esp. at Hailsham) where running away was counter to the group-think being burned into them. There were not even any rumors that anyone had ever tried, unlike the deferral rumor. They seemed to be more interested in "fitting in", rather than getting out. Not to say the other places might have been different.
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