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Patrick Ness
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Publisher | Walker Books Ltd | ||
ISBN | 9781406320756 | ||
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Vicky
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Synopsis
Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
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How does a literary critic get to be so good?! I found Patrick Ness' book The Knife of Never Letting Go quite brilliant and very unusual. Men hear each others thoughts and Noise but the women died from it - or did they?
Ness' use of unsual spellings of words and sometimes the graphics hightened the drama of the story of why Todd and his dog Manchee had to run as far as they could from Prentisstown and all the dark secrets it held.
At the beginning of their journey thought they find a very shocked Viola who at this point can't talk, having survived the crash that killed her parents. But who becomes a close companion to both Todd and Manchee.
Patrick Ness is a wonderful observer of humanity and all its different shades of light and dark. It is a book that I more than highly recommend for teenagers and adults with all its richness of text and vision.
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