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Never Let Me Go
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From the very first page, where "Kathy H." the narrator and main character begins to relate her story as a student at Hailsham, the exclusive British boarding school, you know something is different here. The word "carer" and "donor" pops up, and so little by little, Ishiguro intrigues the reader by giving small hints as to what is really occurring in... »
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mys... »
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The Remains of the Day
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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat e... »
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The World According to Garp
"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in ... »
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When We Were Orphans: A Novel
When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and hi... »
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Never Let Me Go
All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun... »
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Until I Find You: A Novel
At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, so... »
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