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...invoke: spoiler alert. If you want to get the full effect of Kazuo Ishiguro's chilling, intensely moving novel Never Let Me Go (Knopf; 288 pages), read no further than the end of this paragraph. Never Let Me Go is the story of three people--Kathy, Tommy and Ruth--who at first appear to be ordinary children attending an exclusive and indefinably creepy but otherwise ordinary English boarding school. The only other thing you need to know is that the book is a page turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish. Now seriously...
...queasy, freezing, absolutely genuine shock, that Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate version of England where the government raises cloned human beings in order to harvest their vital organs for transplant. Although they don't know this when we first meet them, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are clones, born only to grow up and be taken apart piecemeal...
...follows the trio's feuds, their adolescent trysts (eventually they form a classic love triangle), their hopes and their slow awakening to and acceptance of the gruesome sacrifice that will be expected of them. ("After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" says Ruth.) Cut off from the world, the children become pathetically obsessed with anything that might give them a tiny taste of what life is like for normal people. Ruth's most deeply held fantasy is to work in an office...
...double-handed racing, the Crimson’s A-division finished eighth. With junior captain Vince Porter at skipper and junior Ruth Schlitz crewing, the duo faced problems with consistency, combining a win in the second race and a second-place in the eighth with finishes in 14th-place or greater in the first, fourth, and seventh...
Kelly isn't a deep thinker, but his Hemingway-style, run-on prose is powerfully effective in restoring to life the physical realities of an earlier age--real-life characters like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Cab Calloway practically jostle you as they shoulder their way through smoky speakeasies, and the constant banging of the riveters provides a percussive sound track that drives the book. By the end, labor itself is the only pure thing left in Manhattan. Empire Rising is everything a period novel should be, but it illustrates a paradox bigger than any period: if they work hard...