Never Let Me Go
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Eagerly anticipate reading.
Spent the last evening of the 2-4 long weekend in my window chair to read this.
Thoroughly engrossing read, and beautifully simple language. So many themes here, but those of memory and nostalgia, existentialism, and medical ethics are at the forefront for me.
Ostensibly, this is a story of a love triangle. At a grander scale, it is about one possible logical conclusion to a medical moral dilemma.
But for me, this book is about the helplessness we all feel in the face of our mortality. There is a sense of floundering urgency and yet a sense of blind acceptance, and at the end, the feeling that we might have done better. It is a marvel of a book that brings together so many ideas in such an understated manner.
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This book is signed by the author, a first Canadian edition in hardcover (I have another copy inscribed to me). I would like to trade this with something similar.
Thoroughly engrossing read, and beautifully simple language. So many themes here, but those of memory and nostalgia, existentialism, and medical ethics are at the forefront for me.
Ostensibly, this is a story of a love triangle. At a grander scale, it is about one possible logical conclusion to a medical moral dilemma.
But for me, this book is about the helplessness we all feel in the face of our mortality. There is a sense of floundering urgency and yet a sense of blind acceptance, and at the end, the feeling that we might have done better. It is a marvel of a book that brings together so many ideas in such an understated manner.
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This book is signed by the author, a first Canadian edition in hardcover (I have another copy inscribed to me). I would like to trade this with something similar.
