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Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro : SIGNED : Inscribed to James Runcie
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro : SIGNED : Inscribed to James Runcie
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Never Let Me Go
By Kazuo Ishiguro.
Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2005. Second Impression. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 263 pages.
Personal inscription from the author to the writer/filmmaker James Runcie, son of Archbishop Robert Runcie.
CONDITION
Overall good condition- see photos. Some light marks/scuffs to dustjacket, actual hardcover in very good condition. No names or writing.
Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "100 Best English-language novels published since 1923 - the beginning of TIME". It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.
Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro’s sixth novel, takes place in an alternate reality of England during the 1990s in which human cloning is authorized and performed. Ishiguro started writing Never Let Me Go in 1990. It was originally titled “The Student’s Novel."
James Runcie is the author of twelve novels, including the seven books in The Grantchester Mysteries series. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker, playwright and literary curator.
He has been Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre, London, and Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
His latest novel The Great Passion, a behind the scenes fictional account of the composition, rehearsal period and first performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, is a Sunday Times Book of the Year. 'A riveting meditation on grief and the possibilities of music'.
Tell me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage, a memoir of his wife, Marilyn Imrie is out now. ('A touchingly honest and tender memoir' The Times. 'A wonderful addition to the literature of bereavement' Sunday Times.)
His recent Radio 4 series, Secrets of Storytelling is now available on BBC Sounds
The eighth series of Grantchester will be shown on ITV and PBS in 2023.
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