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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, stands out as a "classic instance of a story that's horrifying," Ramsey Campbell explains, "precisely because the narrator doesn’t think it is." Rachel Cusk makes the same point when, reversing a famous phrase, she describes the novel’s effect as based on "the evil of banality."

Yet other readers, perhaps deceived by the…

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